SC Cleared Python Developer

Company: Opus Recruitment Solutions
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Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Job Description:

Citizen Event Analytics (CEA) is a cross‑benefit, cross‑channel event history compiled from citizens’ interaction (telephony, face‑to‑face and digital), claim processing and support events.

CEA uses a pipeline that extracts, transforms, and loads event data from different sources into the Uplifted Analytical Service (UAS) data asset.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and lead development on sets of related stories.
  • Understand the overall CEA system and teach it to others.
  • Collaborate with other users, Product Owner and Business Analyst to understand what needs to be built.
  • Coach and mentor more junior colleagues.
  • Operate ingest and publishing production pipelines/services, improve system robustness, resilience and stability.
  • Support DWP in the maintenance of the longitudinal event history data asset and associated data pipelines.

Key Skills Required

  • Understanding of data processing using Apache Spark.
  • Use of Python, SQL, and familiarity with PySpark.
  • Experience using Apache Airflow for task orchestration.
  • Understanding of EMR and reviewing output logs.
  • Use of Jupyter notebooks and/or Amazon Athena to query and validate data.
  • Data analysis to identify root cause of issues.
  • Understanding of dimensional data models and slowly changing dimensions/historic data capture.
  • Use of AWS console and services such as CloudWatch, IAM, S3, Glue, ECR, EC2, EMR, DynamoDB, LakeFormation.
  • Familiarity with Amazon Textract and Comprehend.
  • Understanding of both server‑side and client‑side encryption.
  • Use of GitLab for source code management, pipelines for CI/CD, release tagging and deployments.
  • Use of GitLab Tags for component versioning in shared repositories.
  • Understanding of Docker and containerization of solutions.
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Experience of understanding how customer expectations transition to applied functionality.
  • Familiarity with DWP Engineering best practices.
  • Familiarity with basic data structures for constructing a solution.

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Posted: May 21st, 2026