Open Data Technical Lead

Parliamentary Digital Service
Technology
A2
£50,870 - £62,643 per annum.
Permanent
Counter Terrorism Check (CTC)

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

The Open Data team is about to commence developing a new Open Data Platform for parliamentary procedure data, which will replace existing data platforms and the data integration and publishing services running off them.

 

We are looking for an experienced data integration technical lead who will be expected to spend the majority of their time developing and then supporting the new open data platform. The role will principally involve architecting and developing the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data pipeline framework for integrating upstream master data sources from parliamentary business systems into the Open Data Platform, as well as developing API’s to expose the integrated procedural data as data services for internal and external clients, and migrating existing Data Platform services to the new Data Platform. The technical lead will be a key member of the open data team, reporting to the Head of Open Data.

 

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

We are currently looking for candidates who can show:

  • Experience in successfully architecting, developing, delivering and managing a resilient and scalable data integration platform service.
  • Demonstratable knowledge and experience of multiple Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) frameworks and approaches, for materialising data from master data sources -- via API, streaming data, RDBMS etc, in a cloud environment. Experience working with Azure Service Bus, Logic Apps and Functions an added bonus.
  • Demonstratable experience in designing and developing API’s for data – both search API’s, feed API’s etc. Experience with GraphQL and Opensearch an added bonus.
  • Experience in architecting presentation layers to allow engagement with the integrated data. Examples include search interfaces and rich data applications.
  • Experience with developing with RDF graph databases in the cloud. Knowledge and experience working with OWL ontologies, SPARQL and R2RML mappers an added bonus.

 

Please see the Job Description for more information.

 

Join us and you’ll be joining a growing team of talented, like minded individuals who are energised by a fast-paced environment driven by innovation and excellence. You will be collaborative, delivery-focused and have strong organisational and interpersonal skills. In addition, you will be logical and practical, and having a willingness to learn, explore and develop new skills.

 

We’re an open, transparent, collaborative team at the heart of Westminster, who work innovatively and flexibly to facilitate a work/life balance. We pride ourselves in building people’s careers, investing in them and providing great opportunities for career progression. 

This Vacancy is closed to applications.