Open Data Technical Lead

The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) works with the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and Parliament staff on their IT and digital needs. 

At the Parliamentary Digital Service, we’re transforming the way Parliament does digital. We’re responsible for the digital output of all parliamentary services. We think it’s important that everyone can access and understand what’s going on in Parliament. Our goal is to bring together the public, Parliament Members, and Parliamentary staff to inform, engage, support, and communicate through one, unified digital core – PDS.

THE ROLE: 

We are looking for an experienced open data technical lead who will be expected to spend the majority of time developing and supporting the open data platform, setting standards and processes.

We are developing a new Data Platform for parliamentary procedure data, which will replace existing data platforms and the services running off them. The technical lead will be a key member of the team, head of open data, architects and software development team members. The role will involve developing the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) framework for integrating upstream master data sources from parliamentary business systems into the Data Platform, as well as developing API’s to expose the integrated data as data services for internal and external clients, and migrating existing Data Platform services to the new Data Platform.

We are currently looking for candidates who have:

• Experience with developing using RDF graph databases in the cloud (AWS/GCloud/Azure), including setting up and optimising
• Have experience, knowledge and understanding of Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes for data integration into a Graph Database from master data sources (CSV/RDBMS/API/Stream)
• Excellent and proven SPARQL skills
• Experience developing search applications over RDF Graph Databases, including search UI’s incorporating semantics
• Excellent planning and organisational skills and able to prioritise to meet deadlines and cope with fluctuations in workload

Please see Job Description for further information