Data Engineering Team Manager

About Hertfordshire Constabulary

The Constabulary employs over 3,900 officers and staff, 160 PCSO's and 140 Specials. We are a modern, proactive, and flexible police force. We put the communities we serve first and are there for victims when they need us most.

We are now seeking to hire a Data Engineering Manager to manage our dynamic and industrious Data Engineering Team within the Strategy, Performance and Transformation Department that helps provide the Constabulary, and its many stakeholders, with timely performance information, analysis, and advice.

Why join the Hertfordshire Constabulary?

By joining us as our Data Engineer Manager you will receive a broad range of opportunities and benefits some of which include:

• Starting pay of £38,754, rising with service up to £48,894,
• 37 hours per week, across Monday to Friday,
• Flexible Home/Remote Working,
• A minimum Annual leave allowance of 27 days,
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme,
• Opportunities for development and further study,
• A great Employee Assistant Programme, providing free and confidential counselling, financial and legal advice,
• Long Service Awards,
• Blue Light Card,
• Force Lottery,
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme,
• Employee Welfare Fund and,
• Access to Unison

What does the Data Engineering Manager role involve?

You will be working within and managing a dynamic, industrious, highly technical, and innovative team focused on delivering timely, insightful performance data and products vital to ensuring the Constabulary and its many stakeholders have a good understanding of its performance strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in order to be effective at preventing crime, catching criminals and keeping people safe.

Every day is different, whatever your role in policing, but here is an overview of your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Managing, supporting, and helping develop a team of skilled Data Engineers.
• Ensuring the effective, efficient, and timely provision of high-quality, informative, and insightful performance data, analysis, performance services and products.
• Contributing to, and helping manage, the Constabulary’s Performance Management Framework, reporting to relevant parties to ensure the Constabulary and its many stakeholders understand its performance strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Assisting with the preparation and presentation of performance products including dashboards, reports, spreadsheets, tables, graphs, and charts.
• Supporting and encouraging innovation, improving the speed, accuracy, coordination, and automation of the provision of good-quality, informative performance data, analysis, performance services and products.
• Collaborating with and influencing key stakeholders, such as ICT and Senior Management, to help ensure and improve effective and efficient delivery of informative performance products.
• Ensuring an appropriate response to ad hoc enquiries for analytical support from Constabulary colleagues and the Constabulary’s many stakeholders.
• Maintaining and applying a strategic interest in developments in the wider field of data engineering, such as advances in analytical and statistical techniques, AI, machine learning, ‘big data’ and text/data analytics.
• On occasions undertaking high-quality performance data collection/extraction, cleansing, validation, transformation, and analysis using a range of technical and statistical techniques and tools.
• On occasion, deputising for the Head of Performance.
• Ensuring business continuity.

Are you the right person for the Data Engineering Manager position?

It is important to us that we hire someone with the right values and attitude that align with ours. Whether officer or staff, we are serving the public, and the policing Competency and Values Framework underpins everything we do. We are also looking for you to:

• Have great attention to detail.
• Be proactive and use your initiative.
• Take a solution-focused approach to any query or task.
• Be a team player.

If you think this could be the role for you, we encourage you to apply today.

To reach the hiring manager contact Chris Pratt via chris.pratt@herts.police.uk.

Hertfordshire Constabulary celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented or minority groups.

Additional Information

All internal applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period to apply for this role.

Internal applicants within Hertfordshire Constabulary should upload either a CV or provide relevant skills, experiences and qualifications on Word/PDF document.

This vacancy is live to those at risk of redundancy and will remain open to redeployees until a conditional offer has been agreed with a successful candidate. Redeployees at risk of redundancy will take priority over all other applicants at any point during the recruitment process up until an appointment is offered. If a redeployee does apply and is successful, they will remain on their home force’s terms and conditions. As a Disability Confident leader, we take personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. If you have a disability and you meet the minimum criteria for the position you are applying for, you will be entitled to an interview under the ‘Offer an Interview Scheme’.

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