Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer, Systems & Solutions (SaS) - MP&FS DG Division (Technology)

Permanent

Full time

Leeds

Shape the Future of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability

Join the Systems & Solutions (SaS) Domain in the Monetary Policy & Financial Stability (MP&FS) DGCIO Division and be part of the Statistical Data Products Team. We enable critical processes, delivering data driven solutions that influence the nation's financial landscape. If you're excited by the power of cloud technology and want your work to make a real world impact, this is your opportunity.

Opportunities in Leeds

We're excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city we've been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location. You'll work collaboratively with London based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect together in person.

Role Requirements

Are you passionate about cloud and data technologies and their potential to transform data systems? Can you unlock the full potential of cloud native tools to deliver insights? Ready to work with Azure Cloud and Databricks in a high impact environment?

Join us and help shape the future of data platforms using cutting edge cloud solutions. We're looking for innovators who can harness cloud capabilities to drive smarter, faster decisions. Our Systems & Solutions Domain is evolving rapidly, and your cloud skills could be the key to our next breakthrough.

• Practical experience designing, building, supporting, or improving data solutions on the Azure Cloud platform.
• Minimum two years hands on experience working with Azure Databricks.
• Experience building, maintaining, and optimising Azure Data Factory pipelines, or comparable cloud based ETL solutions.
• Expert SQL skills for data manipulation, analysis, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in developing data solutions using Python skills.
• Strong working knowledge of GitHub, including branching, pull requests, merge strategies, code maintenance, security scanning and version control.
• Experience writing unit tests and integrating automating testing into build and deployment processes.

Behaviours & Capabilities

• Demonstrates integrity, self motivation, curiosity, and a commitment to personal and professional development.
• Collaborates effectively across disciplines, communicating clearly with technical and non technical stakeholders to deliver high quality solutions.
• Takes ownership of delivery outcomes, contributing to code reviews, peer reviews, testing, and continuous improvement activities.
• Writes clean, efficient, and maintainable code, with strong awareness of performance, security, resilience, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Champions best practice, shares knowledge, supports team capability growth, and applies emerging tools and techniques where they deliver practical value.

Additional Advantageous Experience

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and collaborating within cross functional teams, using tools such as JIRA and Confluence to support planning, delivery, and knowledge sharing.
• A delivery assurance mindset, with the ability to build trust and confidence through clear governance, evidence based decision making, and proactive stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding of data modelling concepts, including logical and physical models, data lineage, and data quality considerations.

Join Our Systems & Solutions Domain - Where our Systems Drive Impact

At the core of our bank's digital transformation, the Systems & Solutions Domain designs, builds, and supports the data products that power smarter decisions. We're experts in turning complex business needs into elegant, high performing solutions. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of data.

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects society we serve. At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.

Salary and Benefits Information

The salary on offer is £55,280 - £62,190. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• An discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank's Privacy Notice.