Communities

Data engineering community

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
  • share knowledge, collaboration, and career development opportunities among data professionals

Who the community is for

The community is open to anyone working in central government with an interest in data and data engineering. You do not need to be a data engineer to join. Some events are open more widely to all public sector employees.

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:

  • - we鈥檒l use this to let you know about all our events and activities
  • join the on the cross-government data science Slack - you鈥檒l 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: [email protected]

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
  • - discusses how data is being used across government to improve service delivery and policy outcomes

You may also be interested in the data science community and the application programming interface community.

Last update:

Guidance first published