Senior Data Architect London, England
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DESNZ
The responsibilities for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero for 2023 are as follows:
- Delivering security of energy supply
- Ensuring properly functioning energy markets
- Encouraging greater energy efficiency
- Seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries
For 2023, our priorities are:
- Ensure security of energy supply this winter, next winter and in the longer-term – bringing down energy bills and reducing inflation.
- Ensure the UK is on track to meet its legally binding Net Zero commitments and support economic growth by significantly speeding up delivery of network infrastructure and domestic energy production.
- Improve the energy efficiency of UK homes, businesses and public sector buildings to meet the 15% demand reduction ambition.
- Deliver current schemes to support energy consumers with their bills and develop options for long-term reform to improve how the electricity market works for families and businesses.
- Seize the economic benefits of Net Zero, including the jobs and growth created through investment in new green industries.
- Pass the Energy Bill to support the emerging CCUS and hydrogen sectors; to update the governance of the energy system; and to reduce the time taken to consent offshore wind.
Our Inclusive Environment
We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.
We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.
We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process.
Job description
We will deliver an ambitious Data Strategy, covering all corners of the department. This will ultimately ensure DESNZ collects the right data, processes it effectively, and enables discoverability to maximise data use. We will establish guidance and standards to support analysts and data scientists to safely draw insight from data, using both established tools and the latest Artificial Intelligence technologies.
We will translate this strategy into tangible deliverables, working with users to define data standards that demonstrate best-practice guidance for meeting their requirements. We will work as integrators between business need, data domain experts and digital services. We will provide leadership in creation and adoption of metadata management services, including delivering a departmental-wide data catalogue.
Person specification
- Scope solutions for delivering a departmental-wide data catalogue, also providing a platform for metadata management. Deliver this service and support users from across the department to adopt it.
Contribute to the DESNZ data strategy, with a particular focus on data architecture, coordinating with user representatives such as technical architects in data service delivery teams.
Monitor best-practice data management solutions delivered in other organisations, such as through the cross-departmental Data Engineering network, and support DESNZ to adopt such tools where appropriate.
Populate and maintain a departmental library of data standards to enable staff to understand the best-practice way to delivery common data processes, such as portable file formats and metadata management.
Bring together and lead task and finish groups to investigate specific data governance risks/opportunities, resulting in recommended implementation steps, and then monitoring delivery of these.
Engage enthusiastically with boards, senior data users and data service owners from across the department, supporting them to adopt our data strategy and ensuring that our data strategy represents their needs.
Support the director-level Data Governance Board to maintain a comprehensive picture of departmental data governance risks/opportunities, and use this risk register to prioritise data governance activity.
Possible management of junior staff in future.
Skills and Experience
Since our team works across the whole department, and much of our work involves delivery through other teams, candidates for this role must have effective communication and teamworking skills.
We are keen to recruit candidates with a diverse range of experience and expertise in data governance, to better enable us to relate to the wide variety of data users and data professionals within the department.
Your personal statement should detail how you meet the following criteria:
Essential criteria
Experience developing/managing data flows or pipelines, including a strong understanding of end-to-end data lifecycles.
Knowledge of data architecture concepts such as data warehousing or data mesh.
Experience developing and implementing metadata management processes such as data cataloguing, or frameworks to support metadata management or data dictionaries.
Knowledge of the digital services that underpin data and metadata management, and able to advise on the practical steps needed to implement new data and metadata management services.
Ability to learn from best-practice data management solutions used elsewhere to inform and improve data management in your own organisation.
Ability to support a diverse range of users to adopt data standards, to enable staff to use best-practice solutions to common data processes, such as how to publish metadata.
Experience working at the interface of multidisciplinary teams, particularly acting as a translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
High levels of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, with an ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with partners, stakeholders and colleagues.- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a demonstrable track record of convincing a range of stakeholders to buy into a change.
Desirable criteria
Experience setting up data architecture solutions such as data warehousing or data mesh.
Experience implementing a data management approach (e.g. a data maturity assessment).
Technical skills
To be assessed:
Communicating between the technical and non-technical (practitioner) - You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them. You can effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can manage active and reactive communication. You can support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
Data governance (data architect) (practitioner) - You can evolve and define data governance. You can take responsibility for supporting and collaborating around wider governance. You can assure and integrate data services to meet the needs of multiple business services. You can work proactively to ensure the organisation designs architecture that considers data.
Metadata management (practitioner) - You can design an appropriate metadata repository and present changes to existing metadata repositories. You can understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata. You can provide oversight and advice to more inexperienced members of the team.
Turning business problems into data design (practitioner) - You can design data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areas. You can identify links between problems to devise common solutions. You can work across multiple subject areas, or a single large or complicated subject area. You can produce appropriate patterns.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Communicating between the technical and non-technical (practitioner)
- Data governance (data architect) (practitioner)
- Metadata management (practitioner)
- Turning business problems into data design (practitioner)
Benefits
BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need (from September 2021, depending on how the public health guidance evolves).
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Selection process details
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Your personal statement should detail how you meet the Essential criteria for the role as detailed in the Skills And Experience section of the job advertisement.
Applications will be sifted on CV and personal statement.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour and technical questions.
Interviewees will be asked to deliver a presentation; further details will be provided nearer the time.
Sift and interview dates
Expected Timeline subject to change
Sift dates: w/c 22/05/2023
Interview dates: w/c 12/06/2023
Interview Location: MS Teams.
Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, exercising flexibility through the recruitment and selection process.
Further Information
Existing BEIS recruitment campaigns are continuing as usual, but candidates should be aware that following the Government’s announcement on the changes to some civil service departments, roles may be subject to the machinery of government moves and will ultimately be located in one of the new departments. We will provide more information if you are selected for a role. . This work remains of high importance to the civil service, and we thank you for your continued interest.
Reasonable Adjustment
If a disabled person is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional
We are proud to be a disability confident leader, more information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that BEIS offers to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our candidate guidance document. A plain text version of the guidance is also available.
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If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
BEIS does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).
BEIS cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. BEIS holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
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However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email [email protected]
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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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
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