Derbyshire Constabulary

At Derbyshire Constabulary, we’re committed to delivering an excellent public service and consistently improving our organisation to benefit the public. Our Information Services department is vital for ensuring the force achieves digital excellence by continually delivering and optimising solutions. We are a data driven force and rely on data and analytics to provide valuable insights when delivering operational policing. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for developing solutions to obtain data from operational systems and transactional databases force wide. We need you to have expert-level data modelling skills to design and develop data architecture so we can ensure that each department has easily accessible data in a timely manner. You should be proficient with various coding tools and languages to write ETL processes fit for purpose. We are looking for a candidate with real ingenuity, to not only create and maintain the pipeline solutions and database-centric architecture, but optimise these platforms and make innovative suggestions for streamlining and improving data quality. Innovation is at the core of Derbyshire Constabulary, and we require strong a problem-solving skill set to design and re-engineer streams with analytic tools to solve complex data problems. When creating specific data requirements, you may be providing data to non-technical audiences so it’s imperative you can communicate information clearly. You will be a confident communicator with both verbal and written correspondence, and be able to communicate effectively at all levels from team members to stakeholders. Our ideal candidate will have: • Proven experience of developing data driven solutions using cloud technologies. • A strong knowledge of utilising and identifying appropriate data architectures (data lake, data warehouse and data mart) • The ability to optimise data bases through indexing and performance tuning We are passionate about you. Throughout your career, we will provide training and development opportunities, with industry specific qualification such as ITIL and Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate course. We can provide the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology, working with the latest systems and equipment within an open plan office space and a workplace with numerous onsite facilities. We want our staff to feel valued and rewarded, which is why we offer a generous rewards and benefit scheme with competitive workplace pensions and extensive discounts at a range of businesses. We appreciate the important of work life balance and welfare which is why we implement flexible and agile working practises, offer an inclusive organisation with comprehensive wellbeing support and 24-32 days annual leave and 8 days bank holiday. If you are interested in joining us, please review the job description for the full essential and desirable criteria and apply via our website https://careers.derbyshire.police.uk/what-you-could-be-doing/information-services. We look forward to hearing from you.