Senior Data Systems Development Officer (Permanent)

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Renfrewshire is one of Scotland’s larger local authorities and we work hard to respond to the needs of our communities and deliver excellent local services. Our teams provide services to people at every stage of life—helping to make Renfrewshire a safe, welcoming, and fair place for everyone. We are seeking a Senior Data Development Officer to help us deliver digital services to staff and citizens.

Council Values

To shape how we will reach our goals, the Council has four core values.

• We are fair. We treat each other and everyone we deal with respectfully and work hard to build trust in Renfrewshire Council. 
• We are helpful. We care about getting things right and are always approachable.  
• We are great collaborators. We work as one team and with people who care about this place. 
• We value learning to help us innovate, improve, and deliver better services.

Your wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance are important. We want everyone to enjoy their time inside and outside of work. As a Renfrewshire Council employee, you have access to a wide range of benefits designed to help you look after your physical, mental, and financial health including:

• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, with the ability to be based anywhere across the UK.
• Generous leave package, including annual and public holidays.
• Training, development and continued professional development.
• Excellent pension benefits
• Discounts for staff such as within an employee benefits hub e.g. for bicycles and technology.

A healthy team is a successful team, so we provide a range of support services such as occupational health and counselling, to help you stay healthy in mind and body.

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our journey, please select the apply button. We look forward to receiving your application.

Summary of Post

Join us and you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Renfrewshire a better place and contribute to its future. You’ll be part of our Architecture & Technology Team, who work within the ICT team as part of the Finance and Resources Service. Our service ambition is to ensure the smooth running of corporate Council operations by providing services across the organisation—including HR, Procurement, Legal, ICT and Audit & Governance. Your knowledge and skills in this area will help us continue to improve what we do and how we do it.

We work as a team at Renfrewshire Council to

 Innovate
 Explore new ways of working and
 Deliver a great service.

This is a varied and exciting role, with plenty of space to grow and develop. You’ll need strong attention to detail, a can-do attitude and be able to work well within a team environment. You’ll need to be confident, understand the importance of maintaining high standards, have great communication and engagement skills.

To embrace this varied and engaging role, we'll expect you to:

•    Support the implementation of the Council’s Data Strategy Framework, ensuring the Council’s Information systems, platforms, and data sets are fully exploited to meet current and future business objectives.
•    Lead on the identification and implementation of appropriate data platforms/technologies.
•    Work with Data Owners and the Council’s Data Advisory Group to ensure effective and secure data aggregation.
•    Provide wider architectural support and knowledge relating to Information Systems, Information and Data Management, ensuring technologies and processes are optimised while adhering to Council principles, standards, and Information Systems domain architecture.
•    Work within a dynamic and exciting team, with plenty of opportunity for growth and development.
•    Maintain an enthusiasm for learning, and the ability to impart your knowledge to others.
•    Be open to change and innovation.

 As the ideal candidate you should:

•    Be educated to degree level and / or hold a relevant professional qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
•    Have significant experience in data architectures, flows, aggregation, and manipulation.
•    Have experience with data platform/warehouse technologies alongside supporting scripting solutions.
•    Be able to translate business requirements using analysis methods and requirements gathering to inform specifications.
•    Have M365 experience, specifically Power Bi, SharePoint Online, M365 Power Platform and MS Teams.
•    Possess some knowledge and awareness of emerging AI technologies.
•    Have awareness of developments in IT industry including M365 technologies, AI, SaaS, PaaS and DaaS.

Please see the Job Outline and Person Specification for a fuller list of what you’ll do and what we’re looking for.

If successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure Scotland check; the level of check will be determined by the duties of the post. If you would like further information in relation to the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit www.disclosurescotland.co.uk