Data engineer

You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences. You can advocate on behalf of a team and communicate what it does, to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully respond to challenges.

You can translate data into valuable insights that inform decisions. You can effectively involve teams in analytics and synthesis to increase consensus and challenge assumptions. You can identify and use the most appropriate analytical techniques, and you have an understanding of analytical tools. You can demonstrate numeracy. You can show an awareness of advances in digital analytics tools and data manipulation products, and can keep up to date with them. You can collect, collate, cleanse, synthesise and interpret data to derive meaningful and actionable insights.

You can integrate and separate data feeds to map, produce, transform and test new data products.

You can recognise and exploit business opportunities to ensure more efficient and effective performance of organisations. You can explore new ways of conducting business and organisational processes.

You can develop data services that are fit for purpose, resilient, scalable and future-proof, to meet user needs. You can demonstrate an understanding of how to expose data from systems (for example, through APIs), link data from multiple systems and deliver streaming services.

You can produce data models and understand where to use different types. You can understand different tools and compare different data models. You can reverse engineer a data model from a live system. You can understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards.

You can understand a variety of metadata management tools. You can design and maintain the appropriate metadata repositories to enable the organisation to understand its data assets.

You can log, analyse and manage problems to identify and implement the appropriate solution. You can ensure that the problem is fixed.

You can design, write and iterate code from prototype to production-ready. You can understand security, accessibility and version control. You can use a range of coding tools and languages.

You can demonstrate knowledge of the specific technologies necessary to fulfil the responsibilities and tasks of the role. You can apply the required breadth and depth of technical knowledge. You can actively keep informed of industry developments to make cost-effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.

You can plan, design, manage, execute and report tests, using appropriate tools and techniques. You can work within regulations. You can ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.