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For 90 years we have shaped brighter futures through education, arts, culture, language, and creativity.\nWorking with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries.\nWe connect. We inspire.\nThe Role\nThis role, focussed on English and Exams data management, is part of a team of Data Engineers within the Digital and Technology function. It supports enterprise-wide data initiatives by designing, building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, platforms and reusable data assets. The role enables high-quality analytics, reporting and data-driven decision-making through the development of standardised data models and solutions that align with the organisation’s data strategy and corporate data architecture.\nThe Digital and Technology Directorate leads the British Council’s digital strategy and transformation, driving growth, impact and operational efficiency through technology. Organised across Product, Engineering, Operations and Performance divisions, it delivers customer-focused digital products, platforms and services while ensuring accessibility, security and scalability. Within this structure, the Engineering team brings together Architecture, Software Engineering, QA and Delivery expertise to develop and enhance global products and services, champion best practices, and deliver innovative technology solutions through reuse, buy and build approaches.\nMain responsibilities\nThe role is responsible for designing, building and maintaining complex data pipelines and data flows that integrate operational systems and key data sources, enabling trusted data for analytics, reporting and business intelligence. It delivers scalable batch and streaming data solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards, while ensuring solutions are secure, resilient and well documented. The role also promotes the reuse of data assets, patterns and data flows across teams to improve efficiency, reduce duplication and support consistent, high-quality data practices.\nWorking closely with the English and Exams Data Team and cross-functional teams including Architecture, Product, Delivery, Operations and Performance, the role supports strategic programmes and business priorities across English and Exams, while aligning with the enterprise data governance standards and policies defined by the Data, Evidence and Performance (DEP) function. It champions data engineering best practices, standardisation and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment with organisational data strategy, governance and analytics objectives. The role also contributes to capability building through the creation of technical documentation, training materials and knowledge-sharing resources that strengthen the wider Data Engineering community.\nRole specific knowledge and experience\nMinimum/essential\nWorking knowledge of at least one cloud-based data warehouse platform: AWS Redshift, Azure Fabric/ Synapse, Snowflake, Google BigQuery.\nCreate scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and serve structured and unstructured data.\nGood working knowledge of SQL and Python for data querying, transformation and processing.\nDesign and implement Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Medallion architecture solutions.\nExperience with Delta Lake, Parquet, and modern data lake architectures.\nKnowledge of data modelling, performance optimisation, security and data governance.\nExperience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions in Agile environments.\nExperience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub.\nCollaborate with business stakeholders, data analysts, architects, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions.\nData visualisation tools, specifically Power BI or Tableau at an advanced level.\nExperience supporting large change projects/programmes covering digital transformation, multiple technology architecture domains including integration, application and information.\nKnowledge of core business ecosystems (including HR, Finance, Procurement, Contact Centre Management, Service Management, Marketing, Identity, Sales, and Digital and Technology) and experience of their technology related implementations, including coverage for:\nMulti cloud infrastructure and network capabilities - covering Azure, AWS, public and private cloud.\nExperience in Cyber Security best practices, ideally within a UK Government context (OWASP, NCSC, ISO27xxx standards) and experience in architecting to GDPR.\nDesirable\nExperience in cloud migration, especially to Microsoft Fabric/Azure.\nAdvisory or consulting experience \nExperience of leading projects \nMicrosoft certified Data Engineer\nEducation\nDegree in Computer Science, Information Technology, related discipline; or equivalent experience working in a related field.\nProfessional Qualification and Certification\nCloud certified Data Engineer (Microsoft, AWS, etc)\nLanguage Requirements\nThe British Council systems and global processes operate in English. Written and verbal proficiency in English is required.\nBritish Council | Pay Band 8\nLocation: Noida, India\nDepartment: Digital and Technology\nContract: Indefinite Contract\nApply by: Wednesday, Oct 21st (23:59 local time)\nInterview Window: TBD\nPlease note that candidates must have the pre-existing, legal right to work in India. Mobility / relocation / visa sponsoring support will not be provided. British Council supports working in new ways such as hybrid working, subject to full approval by line management and conditional upon our ability to provide the appropriate level of service. This may not be appropriate for all roles but can be explored at interview.\nA connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.\nEquality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement\nWe are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work. The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes, increase understanding of disability and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent. We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.\nSafeguarding Statement\nThe British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with. We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989. 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