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Data engineering community

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The data engineering community exists to:

• share data engineering ideas, experiences and good practice
• increase innovation in data engineering in the public sector
• develop and agree consistent definitions, standards and principles
• champion and facilitate professional development
• promote and support investment in data innovation

Who the community is for

The community is open to anyone working in the public sector with an interest in data and data engineering. You do not need to be a data engineer to join.

You might be interested in this community if you are involved in:

• designing and building data products and services
• automating manual data processes
• exploring new data engineering tools and techniques
• producing and maintaining data models
• improving access to high quality data
• translating data into insights that inform decisions
• developing and applying data standards and principles
• working with digital and technology, analysis, policy and operations to understand where data can add the most value

Get involved

To get involved you can:

• sign up to the data engineering community mailing list - we’ll use this to let you know about all our events and activities
• join the #dataengineering channel on the cross-government data science Slack - you’ll need a public sector email address to join

If you would like to get involved in running the community and organising events and activities, email the community at: dataengineering@digital.justice.gov.uk

Events

We run a cross-government meet-up twice a year. These are open to anyone working in the public sector with an interest in data and data engineering. Sign up to the mailing list or Slack channel to find out about these events.

Community resources

You may find these resources about data engineering in government useful:

• the role of a data engineer - what a data engineer in government does and the skills you need to do the job
• Data in government blog - discusses how data is being used across government to improve service delivery and policy outcomes

Related communities

You may also be interested in the data science community.

• Last update: 6 July 2021

  Guidance first published