This is a hands-on role suited to engineers with strong ETL, SQL and data platform experience, with exposure to enterprise-scale delivery and structured governance practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain technical design documentation (HLDs/LLDs where required)
- Develop ETL solutions using Talend in line with established frameworks and patterns
- Build and maintain project artefacts including Talend jobs, Oracle DDL and SQL scripts, and GitLab pipeline enhancements
- Review, challenge and refine project requirements with delivery stakeholders
- Investigate and resolve defects and issues identified during testing phases
- Conduct peer reviews of development and test artefacts to ensure quality and consistency
- Support production releases, deployments and post-release “warranty” activities
- Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and proactively escalate where required
- Conduct component testing, including test data creation and execution of automated test packs
- Support QA teams in test execution and defect debugging across the delivery lifecycle
- Contribute to performance testing and optimisation of ETL solutions
- Collaborate within Agile teams, including stand-ups and scrum-of-scrums sessions
- Provide mentoring and technical guidance to junior engineers
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer in enterprise or public sector environments
- Strong ETL/data integration experience (Talend preferred)
- Experience with alternative ETL tools such as Pentaho or Informatica (transferable)
- Strong Oracle database experience, including Oracle RDS
- Advanced SQL skills (DDL and DML)
- Experience with Git version control and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab)
- Experience supporting testing phases (component testing, defect resolution, test automation support)
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments
- Active SC clearance
- Experience working in similar government programmes
- Familiarity with CRS/FATCA or financial compliance data domains
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and pipeline automation
- Experience contributing to performance testing activities
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members
- Understanding of structured governance approaches (e.g. RAID management)
