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Data Engineer, Geospatial

Idox Plc
Farnborough
4 days ago
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Overview

The Idox Geospatial Division has brought together four geospatial business units into a single combined entity to establish one of the largest geospatial businesses in the UK. The new division provides a compelling capability that covers the full geospatial lifecycle, from strategy and consultancy to powerful software and data as a service.

Geospatial data significantly underpins the division’s current and future revenues. Within the Division’s Data & Research Team, the Data Engineer role is responsible for designing, building and optimising our data pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring that the curation, delivery and value added use of our geospatial data catalogue is undertaken to a high quality. Working with the 3 sub teams of Research & Innovation, Data Delivery and Data Management you will ensure we provide quality assured data products and services to our customers, maximising the potential for automation of our data pipelines, contributing to the development of new and existing data products and services and supporting our research and innovation projects.

Continuous improvement is key to our success and you will directly contribute to the enhancement of our systems and processes as well as the adoption of relevant standards. You will contribute to our increased use and application of new technologies including Artificial Intelligence as we develop new data insight products and services as well as improve the automation of our pipelines and data collection systems. In the role you will provide technical support, product development and testing, data management and support to our Products, Sales and Customer Operations teams. You will help to ensure our key service management commitments are fulfilled to high quality and performance standards as well as making sure that our technical documentation is well maintained. The role provides a growth path from Junior to Senior levels.

Note: The original description contained duplicate paragraphs. The refined version consolidates the core information without changing meaning.

Responsibilities
  • Design, build and optimise data pipelines and infrastructure for geospatial data
  • Ensure curation, delivery and value-added use of the geospatial data catalogue is high quality
  • Collaborate with Research & Innovation, Data Delivery and Data Management sub teams to provide quality assured data products and services
  • Maximise automation of data pipelines and contribute to development of new and existing data products and services
  • Support research and innovation projects and adoption of relevant standards
  • Avoid or minimise manual processes by contributing to automation and use of new technologies including Artificial Intelligence
  • Provide technical support, product development and testing, and data management support to Products, Sales and Customer Operations teams
  • Ensure service management commitments are met to high quality and performance standards
  • Maintain technical documentation
  • Follow a growth path from Junior to Senior levels


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