Head of Data Engineering > Southampton > Joboolo FR :
Company : Maritime and Coastguard Agency Location : Southampton England
Job summary We welcome applications from all communities and we don't discriminate against any identity.
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Are you a passionate Data Engineer professional looking for your next challenge? Could you provide technical leadership across data projects and programmes? Would you like to play a key role in delivering the data strategy across the MCA? If so, we'd love to hear from you! The Maritime and CoastguardAgency (MCA) implements the government's maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.
Safer lives, Safer ships, Cleaner seas.
Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards.
We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.
Job description MCA have embarked on an exciting journey to change the way that we use data across the organisation to empower our people and partners to harness the power of data to make the best decisions to save lives and create safer more sustainable seas.
We have an exciting opportunity for a DataEngineering professional to join us as the Head of DataEngineering in the Information Technology Directorate, bringing their experience and using their passion and enthusiasm to work across all areas of the MCA leading a team to support our mission and help make our data vision a reality.
Reporting to the Chief Data Architect, the Head of DataEngineering is a pivotal role in our journey to becoming a data enabled organisation, responsible for leading the dataengineering team to deliver trusted data and supporting technologies to enable the organisation to analyse, share and exploit our data assets.
The successful applicant will inspire and coach the DataEngineering team to apply best practice to unlock data from source systems, create data pipelines and deliver data for analysis and reporting across the business.
The Head of DataEngineering will collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Information Asset Owners and wider Government DataEngineering professionals to design, develop and deploy data services, advanced analytics and data science.
The role holder will also champion continuous improvement, promoting innovation and integrating new data development technologies into the MCA Data Platform.
Responsibilities Working with the Head of Data Science taking responsibility for designing and delivering the data roadmap for the MCA.
Responsible for designing, architecting and building data pipeline solutions.
Providing technical leadership across data projects and programmes.
Contributing'to creating an agile, fast paced organisation by promoting innovation as we investigate and adopt modern technologies and modernise our approach to become a data-enabled organisation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to take a key role within our supportive and collaborative team, enjoying an agile work environment with exposure to the full data life cycle delivering new systems and services.
You will join at start of our journey to deliver the data strategy, unlocking the data within our organisation, bringing it to life and ensuring it is used to enable better decision making across all functions within the MCA.
This role will be based at your preference of the listed offices.
MCA supports flexible working and operates a hybrid working model between home and office for this role, giving you greater flexibility over where and when you work.
Details of the arrangement will be discussed further with your line manager.
There may be a requirement for travel on official duty within the UK, which may involve overnight stays away from home.
Person specification We are looking to be joined by a motivated individual with a background in dataengineering, experience delivering dataengineering projects and managing a team.
You will have great communication skills, able to adapt and reflect your approach to suit varied audiences, breaking down and translating technical information into clear understandable language.
You will thrive managing a varied workload with multiple workstreams and your fantastic organisational skills mean you are able to balance and prioritise tasks in-order-to meet deadlines.
You are calm under pressure, committed, innovative and driven with the leadership skills to inspire, motivate and coach others to achieve successful outcomes.
A keen collaborator, you will enjoy building strong working relationships and liaising with a variety of stakeholders, deep diving into various data systems.
You're a critical thinker who takes a strategic view, able to connect the dots and see the big picture to evaluate how data insights affect the business.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Changing and Improving Working Together Delivering at Pace Communicating and Influencing Leadership Seeing the Big Picture Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
DDaT Profession Capability Framework:
Head of DataEngineering - Communicating between the technical and non-technical (Expert) DDaT Profession Capability Framework:
Head of DataEngineering - Data development process (Expert) DDaT Profession Capability Framework:
Head of DataEngineering - Problem resolution (data) (Expert) DDaT Profession Capability Framework:
Head of DataEngineering - Data analysis and synthesis (Practitioner) DDaT Profession Capability Framework:
Head of DataEngineering - Technical understanding (Expert) Benefits Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits.
We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
How to Apply As part of your application, you will be required to complete a CVoutlining your career history, and the key responsibilities you had in each of your roles.
Within your CV please demonstrate your:
Experience in delivering successful and high-value dataengineering initiatives using an agile approach.
Demonstrable experience in delivering dataengineering projects working through complex business problems and partnering with internal and external stakeholders.
Experience in team management along with demonstrable evidence of mentoring and coaching team members.
Please submit your CV to .
by on 4th April 2023.
If your application qualifies for any of the following schemes, please clearly indicate which on your application Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), Redeployment Interview Scheme or Great Place to Work for Veterans.
Details can be found within this advert.
Sift and Interview Dates Following receipt of your CV, you may be contacted via telephone to discuss in more detail as part of the pre-screening activities prior to sift.
The initial sift is due to take place from 6th April 2023.
The final sift is due to take place from 10th April 2023.
If successful at the sift stage, you will be invited to take part in a 1st stage Behaviour interview via Teams.
'This is due to be held from 13th April 2023.
If successful at the 1st stage interview, you will then be invited to a final Technical and Experience interview and Presentation to take place via Teams week commencing 17th April 2023.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert.
There may be occasions when these dates will change.
You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
As part of your assessment you will be assessed against Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework:
Head of DataEngineering You're encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
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Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups:
UK nationals nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.
As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. Maritime and CoastguardAgency SouthamptonEngland
