CQC - Junior Data Engineer

Grade D - £27,277 (National Framework) or £32,679 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home

Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week (Part time hours may be considered)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: We can offer homebased working, office based or talk to us about flexible working.

Closing date: Sunday 12th May 2024 at 11.59pm 

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn. 

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind?  For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities.  We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve.  We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement.  If you would like to help us, make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on. 

Why this could be a great role for you….

Learning and growth opportunities: You will have the opportunity to work alongside experienced engineers on a state-of-the-art Enterprise Data Platform built in Microsoft Azure. CQC offers learning and development and mentoring opportunities to help you keep your skills up to date. 
Meaningful work:  You will play a vital role in supporting the infrastructure used to inform data driven, evidence-based decisions which impact users of Health and Care in England. 
Collaborative working:  You will be based in the Data Engineering team but will have opportunities for collaboration across multiple teams including Data Science and Visualisation. 

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home. 

We want to support you to succeed and be your absolute best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.   
We want to make working for CQC a broad experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network. 

Individual Adjustments… 

We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate individual adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected]. 

What you will bring…
You will have some experience of data manipulation and analysis of data using appropriate technologies, for example, Excel and R Studio. You should also have basic experience in assessing and analysing business issues or problems and identifying and planning appropriate solutions.

Accountabilities:

• Design, code, test, fix and document simple programmes or scripts under the direction of others.
• Work with data tools to contribute to the designing, building and testing of basic data pipelines and services, based on feeds from multiple systems using a range of different storage technologies and/or access methods provided by the Enterprise Data Platform, with a focus on creating repeatable and reusable components and products, guided and supported by senior colleagues.
• Work closely with colleagues in the Data Engineering team to effectively translate requirements into solutions.
• Contribute to the delivery of robust, supportable and sustainable data solutions in accordance with agreed organisational standards that ensure services are resilient, scalable and future proof alongside the Data Engineer and Senior Data Engineer.
• Apply a basic understanding of the concepts and principles of data modelling to inform the design of data pipelines.
• Clearly, accurately and informatively document and annotate code, routines and other components to enable support, maintenance and future development.
•  Work with QA Engineers to execute testing where required.
• Refer to checklists daily to see what has loaded and work with senior colleagues to fix issues that arise. 
• Learn from what has worked as well as what has not, being open to change and improvement and working in ‘smarter’, more effective ways.
• Support the analysis and resolution of data issues to help provide timely fixes.
• Ensure careful and thoughtful use and protection of government and public information to ensure it is handled securely and with care, following CQC’s data management principles and policies.
• Design and undertake appropriate quality control and assurance for delivery of output. 
• Promote a strong data culture across CQC in line with the organisational data strategy.
• Role model inclusive behaviours in everyday interactions. 
• Promote a culture of respect and fairness and understand personal responsibilities around delivering against CQC diversity and inclusion strategy. 
• Demonstrate competence and support others to achieve behavioural excellence through our Success Profiles (Grade D) ensuring yourself and those you work with are the best that they can be.
• Role model and support others to instil our values into everything that we do. 

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Some experience of data manipulation and analysis of data using appropriate technologies (e.g. Excel, R Studio).
• Some theoretical understanding of product and/or solution development lifecycles using frameworks/methodologies such as Agile, SAFe, DevOps.
• Basic experience in assessing and analysing business issues or problems and identifying and planning appropriate solutions.
• Demonstrable oral and written communication skills.

Desirable:

• Understanding of the health and care sectors.
• Experience in programming languages for data manipulation (e.g. Python, Scala, SQL).   

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Ravi Venkatramanar, Principal Engineer at [email protected]

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Our Values

Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can