Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer (Full Time) - Salary – £54,664 - £64,310 (dependent on experience) - Hybrid working.

Our growing Technology team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the cutting edge of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.

Join us and you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they could not have done it without us. And to be central to OS’s vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

About the role

As a Senior Data Engineer joining Ordnance Survey’s Data Capture and Engineering team, you will provide leadership and expertise in developing new techniques, tools and pipelines. You will transform and manipulate geospatial data into forms suitable for visualisation, analysis and further development with your Agile team.

Providing insight and experience to advise data-driven decision making, your focus is on building, maintaining and solving data processing systems to meet business requirements, with an emphasis on security, reliability, fault-tolerance, scalability, fidelity, and efficiency.

Researching and utilising ground-breaking technologies to automate and simplify processes, is all part of the role. For example, you could be working with big data and machine learning technologies such as Azure Databricks, or more traditional geospatial transformation tools, such as FME or ESRI geo-processing.

A technical leader in one of our development teams, the primary focus of your day-to-day activities will be data manipulation and delivering data pipelines to aid development. Your leadership will guide other engineers to successful delivery outcomes.

What we’re looking for

If you’re interested in joining a team that lies at the heart of what OS is about, we’re looking for an individual that can demonstrate skills and experience in

• A degree level qualification in a quantitative subject area or significant experience in a relevant field, such as statistical modelling or mathematics

• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (or similar)

• Working with any of the following: Databricks, Spark, FME, ESRI geoprocessing

• Relevant programming language(s) and databases

• Influencing key business and technical stakeholders, with strong presentation and consultancy skills

• Providing technical coaching and mentoring

• People Leadership (desirable)

• Hadoop, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Keras, or equivalent big data processing and machine learning technologies (desirable)

• Geospatial data processing and analysis techniques (desirable)

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Check out how we support and invest in our employees by clicking here.  

• Salary – £54,664 - £64,310 (dependent on experience)

• Performance related bonus up to 10% 

• A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to ~12%) 

• 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays (including 3 days Christmas shutdown), with an extra day’s leave for each year worked up to 33 days 

• Free subscription to our award-winning OS Maps app and wider employee discounts 

• Support with continuous improvement with access to online learning platforms/e-books, and coaching / mentoring schemes 

• Life Assurance cover 

• Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits  

At OS, we believe looking after your health and wellbeing means more than posters and events. We empower you to manage your work and life the way you need it by offering things like  

• Employee Assistance Programme 

• Flexible working  

• Annual volunteer day to support the local community and charities 

• OS Explorers Nursery discount 

• Parking at our modern Southampton HQ, or Cycle to Work scheme for active commuting  

Location: We embrace a hybrid working model at OS and understand there is no one size fits all in relation to how we work. We have a fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire where you will be required to