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Algorithms

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Suppose there exists a new airline named Jetco that flies domestically across North America. Jetco recently had a study commissioned that tested the boarding time of every airline, and it came out that Jetco had the fastest average boarding times of any airline.

What factors could have biased this result, and what would you look into?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

Boarding Times Bias

A new airline came out as the fastest average boarding times compared to other airlines.  What factors could have biased this result and what would you look into?

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

Hundreds of Hypotheses

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

Let’s say you work for a social media company that has just done a launch in a new city. Looking at weekly metrics, you see a slow decrease in the average number of comments per user from January to March in this city.

The company has been consistently growing new users in the city from January to March.

What are some reasons why the average number of comments per user would be decreasing and what metrics would you look into?

What metric could be used to measure if active users are still engaging on the platform despite an overall decrease in the average number of comments per user?

What metric could be used to measure if active users are still engaging on the platform despite an overall decrease in the average number of comments per user?

Decreasing Comments

How would you investigate a decline in the average number of comments per user?

Job descriptionOur Principal Data Engineers are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients. We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Data Engineers to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion. The successful candidate will lead the Data Engineering aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction. In addition, our Principal Data Engineers are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries. Key responsibilitiesOur Principal Data Engineers are members of the Data & AI Practice leadership team with the responsibility to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business. You will be responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of your engagement/account as well as a shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. You will leverage your client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions. The right person for this role will do this by combining their technical discipline/craft experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector. Responsibilities<ul><li>Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials</li><li>Assess project performance as a part of the billable delivery team, Quality Assure (QA) the deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction. Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to develop their careers</li><li>Act as a Technical Authority of the Data & AI capability to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge</li><li>Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission</li><li>Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues</li><li>Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events</li></ul> Skills, knowledge and expertise Clients<ul><li>Understanding of the issues and challenges that the public sector faces in delivering services that make the best use of data and digital capabilities, transforming legacy infrastructure, and taking an innovative and user-centric approach</li><li>Ability to innovate and take learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and advances in technology and apply them to UK Public Sector challenges to create tangible solutions for our clients</li><li>Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders within the public sector.</li></ul> Leadership<ul><li>Experience of building and leading high performing, consulting teams and creating the leveraged engagements to provide a cost-effective, profitable, successful client-facing delivery</li><li>Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry</li><li>Experience of managing third-party partnerships and suppliers (in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues) to provide a consolidated and seamless delivery team to clients.</li></ul> Practice<ul><li>Experience in delivering complex and difficult engagements that span multiple capabilities for user-facing digital and data services in the public sector</li><li>Experience in identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress the development of the opportunity</li><li>Experience of working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.</li></ul> Data Engineering<ul><li>While this is not a hands-on coding technical role, the importance of credibility in approach to digital, data and technology in the public sector cannot be understated. You will be expected to maintain a broad technical knowledge of modern data practices, be able to shape data strategy and roadmaps, and hold others to account for technical quality.</li><li>Experience working directly with customers and users within a technology consultancy</li><li>Expertise in shaping data strategy and approaches to quality, ethics and governance.</li><li>Experience in developing a data capability or function</li><li>Combining data science, analytics and engineering</li><li>Strong understanding of various architectures including data warehouses, data lakes, data lake houses and data mesh</li><li>Strong understanding of best practice DataOps and MLOps</li><li>Up-to-date understanding of various data engineering technologies including Apache Spark, Databricks and Hadoop</li><li>Strong understanding of agile ways of working</li><li>Up-to-date understanding of various programming languages including Python, Scala, R and SQL</li><li>Up-to-date understanding of various databases and cloud-based datastores including SQL and NoSQL</li><li>Up-to-date understanding of cloud platforms including AWS and/or Azure and their data offerings</li><li>Evidence of self-development – we value keen learners</li></ul> Job benefitsSupport in applyingIf you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com. We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from <a>our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity</a> (as well as our client work and best practice). Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know. BenefitsWe are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: ✈️ <a>30 days Holiday</a> - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays!???? <a>Flexible Parental Leave</a> - we offer flexible parental leave options???? ???? <a>Remote Working</a> - we offer part time remote working for all our staff???? <a>Paid counselling</a> - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice. An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

Job descriptionOur Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality, cost-efficient, and tailored to the clients’ needs. They develop, operate, and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders. Key responsibilitiesAt Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We want to empower the public sector to deliver and continuously improve digital services that are user-centric, data-driven and freed from legacy technology. A key component of this is developing modern data systems and platforms that drive informed decision-making for our clients. As a Data Engineer, you'll play a hands-on role as a contributor to client projects, focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team. As a member of the data capability within Made Tech, you will also participate in our hiring process and continued development of the team, as well as representing us both internally to the organisation and publicly via presentations. You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users and have a desire to mentor teams. You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. Maybe you’ve written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two that you’d like to share. Skills, knowledge and expertiseWe look for the following skills and experience. But if you don’t have some of the skills and experience listed below, don’t let that stop you from applying!<ul><li>Working directly with clients and users</li><li>Strong hands-on Python experience</li><li>Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale, in either batch or streaming use cases</li><li>Contributing to the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach</li><li>Basic understanding of the possible architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. warehouses, lakes, and meshes)</li><li>Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban</li><li>Showcasing and presentation skills</li><li>Evidence of self-development – we value keen learners</li><li>Empathy and people skills</li></ul> Desirable experience<ul><li>Working at a technology consultancy</li><li>Pair programming</li><li>Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables, such as machine learning models</li><li>Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation)</li><li>Working knowledge of statistics</li><li>Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams</li><li>Working within the public sector</li></ul> At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies. An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why. Support in applyingIf you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com. We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. Job benefitsWe’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from <a>our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity</a> (as well as our client work and best practice). Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know. BenefitsWe are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: ✈️ <a>30 days Holiday</a> - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave???? <a>Flexible Parental Leave</a> - we offer flexible parental leave options???? ???? <a>Remote Working</a> - we offer part time remote working for all our staff???? <a>Paid counselling</a> - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.

Job descriptionOur Senior Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality, cost-efficient, and tailored to clients’ needs. They develop, operate, and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders. Key responsibilitiesAs a Senior Data Engineer, you may play one or more roles according to our clients' needs. The role is very hands-on and you'll support as a senior contributor for a project, focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team. At other points, you might play more of a technical architect role and work with the larger MadeTech team to identify growth opportunities within the account. You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users. You’ll make sure that the wider context of a delivery is considered and maintain alignment between the operational and analytical aspects of the engineering solution. Skills, knowledge and expertiseWe are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, please apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria.<ul><li>Enthusiasm for learning and self-development</li><li>Proficiency in Git (inc. Github Actions) and able to explain the benefits of different branch strategies</li><li>Gathering and meeting the requirements of both clients and users on a data project</li><li>Strong experience in IaC and able to guide how one could deploy infrastructure into different environments</li><li>Owning the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach</li><li>Knowledge of handling and transforming various data types (JSON, CSV, etc) with Apache Spark, Databricks or Hadoop</li><li>Good understanding of the possible architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. Data Warehouse, Data Lakes and Data Meshes) and the different use cases for them</li><li>Ability to create data pipelines on a cloud environment and integrate error handling within these pipelines. With an understanding how to create reusable libraries to encourage uniformity of approach across multiple data pipelines.</li><li>Able to document and present an end-to-end diagram to explain a data processing system on a cloud environment, with some knowledge of how you would present diagrams (C4, UML etc.)</li><li>To provide guidance how one would implement a robust DevOps approach in a data project. Also would be able to talk about tools needed for DataOps in areas such as orchestration, data integration and data analytics.</li><li>Experience in improving resilience into a project by checking for software vulnerabilities and implement appropriate testing strategies (unit, integration, data quality etc.)</li><li>Knowledge of SOLID, DRY and TDD principles and how to practically implement these into a project.</li><li>Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban</li><li>Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale, both in batch and streaming use cases</li><li>Owning the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach</li><li>Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban</li><li>People skills such as mentoring, supportive team player and performing line management duties</li><li>To be able to demonstrate a commercial mindset when on projects to grow accounts organically with senior stakeholders</li></ul> Desirable experienceExperience in the following things isn’t essential, but it’s highly desirable!<ul><li>Working at a technology consultancy</li><li>Working with Docker and virtual environments as part of the development and CI/CD process.</li><li>Working with senior stakeholders to gather requirements and keep them engaged with</li><li>Experience in working with a team of engineers using a variety of techniques such as pair programming or mob programming.</li><li>Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables, such as machine learning models</li><li>Working knowledge of statistics</li><li>Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams</li><li>Working within the public sector</li></ul> Job benefitsSupport in applyingIf you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com. We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from <a>our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity</a> (as well as our client work and best practice). Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know. BenefitsWe are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: ✈️ <a>30 days Holiday</a> - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays!???? <a>Flexible Parental Leave</a> - we offer flexible parental leave options???? ???? <a>Remote Working</a> - we offer part time remote working for all our staff???? <a>Paid counselling</a> - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice. An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

Compensation: £50,500 - £60,000 per annum Are you a Product Manager, passionate about user-centred design? If solving complex problems that uplift societal value feels rewarding to you, then keep on reading! About Made TechOur aim at Made Tech is to use human-centred technology to improve our society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone. About the roleOur Senior Product Managers enable public sector organisations to better design services that improve society. You will be expected to role model and lead teams with best practice in your discipline. Reporting to one of our Lead Product Managers, this role is responsible for leading on product within a client delivery team. You will work as part of cross-functional teams which might include other Made Tech team members, stakeholders and partner agencies. You will inspire trust in the team, guide and coach teams through the product process and use your influence to continuously iterate and improve ways of working and processes. Key responsibilities<ul><li>You will be expected to work in a self initiated manner, but with support of senior team members, and in a collaborative and inclusive manner</li><li>Collaborate with and influence the wider Made Tech team and our clients to deliver high quality work aligned with our customers vision and needs</li><li>Influence decision making which impacts the success of the team. This might include scoping work, prioritisation, deadlines, budgets and evaluating risk</li><li>Work across one assignment for a client at one time</li><li>Coach, support and people manage more junior members of the Product team. To steer and coach them towards successful delivery for our clients, enabling them and holding them accountable for producing high quality outputs and deliverables</li><li>Maintain a broad technical knowledge of product management, and continue to develop knowledge of user-centred design and technical practice. Assist and be able to shape strategy, proposals, statements of work and roadmaps</li><li>Contribute to Made Tech’s community of practice for Product and collaborate with other disciplines</li><li>Assist in developing and growing the discipline in line with business and capability needs, ensuring we embed the Made Tech way of product-led and design thinking into all that we do</li></ul> Skills people must have:<ul><li>Excellent understanding and articulation of the value of product and user-centred design</li><li>Experience and evidence of delivering user centred products and services from ideation through to maintenance phases</li><li>Ability to support and coach others to grow their skills, product capabilities and to take on more responsibility for client-facing projects</li><li>Able to educate and mentor team members, colleagues and peers in the wider business on developing product and agile delivery as a core discipline</li><li>Experienced in working directly with customers and users, and able to drive teams to deliver excellent outcomes for users</li><li>Working within a design consultancy/senior product leadership role in the public sector, health or allied areas</li><li>Strong empathy and relationship building skills</li></ul> Desirable (not essential) skills:<ul><li>Working with sales teams to build client relationships, develop opportunities and win new work</li><li>Working in the open - building the trust within teams to share little and often</li><li>Experience in re-designing legacy services and products</li><li>Maintaining a deep working knowledge of product,design and research techniques</li><li>Experience in line management</li></ul> At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies. SC Eligibility An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why. Support in applying If you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com. We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a member of our talent team who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. We’ve put together <a>this blog</a> as a resource to share more about reasonable adjustments and some examples of what this could include. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. Life at Made Tech We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from <a>our blog</a>, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity as well as our client work and best practice. Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please let one of the Made Tech Talent Team know. The groups are:<ul><li>antiracist-activists</li><li>disability</li><li>lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists</li><li>neurodiversity</li><li>parents-carers</li><li>womxn-in-tech</li></ul>Job benefitsWe’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from <a>our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity</a> (as well as our client work and best practice). Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know. We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:<ul><li><a>30 days Holiday</a> - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave</li><li><a>Flexible Working Hours</a> - we are flexible with what hours you work</li><li><a>Flexible Parental Leave</a> - we offer flexible parental leave options</li><li><a>Remote Working</a> - we offer part time remote working for all our staff</li><li><a>Paid counselling</a> - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice</li></ul>

Salary range is £60,000 - £75,000 depending on experienceLocation: Hybrid working in either Bristol, Manchester, or London. At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We want to empower the public sector to deliver and continuously improve digital services that are user-centric, data-driven and freed from legacy technology. A key component of this is developing modern data systems and platforms that drive informed decision-making for our clients. You will also work closely with clients to help shape their data strategy. Our Senior Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality, cost-efficient, and tailored to clients’ needs. They develop, operate, and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders. As a Senior Data Engineer, you may play one or more roles according to our clients' needs. The role is very hands-on and you'll support as a senior contributor role for a project, focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team. At other points, you might play more of a technical architect role and work with the larger MadeTech team to identify growth opportunities within the account. You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users. You’ll make sure that the wider context of a delivery is considered and maintain alignment between the operational and analytical aspects of the engineering solution. What skills and experience are we looking for?We are looking for candidates with a range of skills and experience, please apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria as if unsuccessful we can provide you with feedback.<ul><li>Enthusiasm for learning and self-development</li><li>Proficiency in Git (inc. Github Actions) and able to explain the benefits of different branch strategies</li><li>Gathering and meeting the requirements of both clients and users on a data project</li><li>Strong experience in IaC and able to guide how one could deploy infrastructure into different environments</li><li>Owning the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach</li><li>Knowledge of handling and transforming various data types (JSON, CSV, etc) with Apache Spark, Databricks or Hadoop</li><li>Good understanding of the possible architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. Data Warehouse, Data Lakes and Data Meshes) and the different use cases for them</li><li>Ability to create data pipelines on a cloud environment and integrate error handling within these pipelines. With an understanding how to create reusable libraries to encourage uniformity of approach across multiple data pipelines.</li><li>Able to document and present an end-to-end diagram to explain a data processing system on a cloud environment, with some knowledge of how you would present diagrams (C4, UML etc.)</li><li>To provide guidance how one would implement a robust DevOps approach in a data project. Also would be able to talk about tools needed for DataOps in areas such as orchestration, data integration and data analytics.</li><li>Experience in improving resilience into a project by checking for software vulnerabilities and implement appropriate testing strategies (unit, integration, data quality etc.)</li><li>Knowledge of SOLID, DRY and TDD principles and how to practically implement these into a project.</li><li>Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban</li><li>Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale, both in batch and streaming use cases</li><li>Owning the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach</li><li>Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban</li><li>People skills such as mentoring, supportive team player and performing line management duties</li><li>To be able to demonstrate a commercial mindset when on projects to grow accounts organically with senior stakeholders</li></ul> Desirable experienceExperience in the following things isn’t essential, but it’s highly desirable!<ul><li>Working at a technology consultancy</li><li>Working with Docker and virtual environments as part of the development and CI/CD process.</li><li>Working with senior stakeholders to gather requirements and keep them engaged with</li><li>Experience in working with a team of engineers using a variety of techniques such as pair programming or mob programming.</li><li>Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables, such as machine learning models</li><li>Working knowledge of statistics</li><li>Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams</li><li>Working within the public sector</li></ul> Support in applyingIf you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com. We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us. When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates. Life at Made TechWe’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from <a>our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity</a> (as well as our client work and best practice).Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Partner know.The groups are:<ul><li>antiracist-activists</li><li>disability</li><li>lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists</li><li>neurodiversity</li><li>parents-carers</li><li>women-in-tech</li></ul> BenefitsWe are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:✈️ <a>30 days Holiday</a> - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave????️ <a>Flexible Working Hours</a> - we are flexible with what hours you work???? <a>Flexible Parental Leave</a> - we offer flexible parental leave options???? ???? <a>Remote Working</a> - we offer part time remote working for all our staff???? <a>Paid counselling</a> - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice. An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process, it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application.

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