Data Engineer

Data Engineer | Defence | SC or DV | Blandford (2-3 days on site)

Salary: £50k to £75k + bonus + benefits

Clearance: SC or DV (must be a British citizen, UK resident for the last 5 years)

Type: Permanent

A specialist defence and national security consultancy has just won a new project and needs a Data Engineer to help build it from the ground up.

You’ll be on site with the MOD customer, designing and delivering the data platform that operational decisions run on. It’s a new team on a new programme, so there’s plenty of room to shape how things are done.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and building ETL frameworks to ingest, transform, validate and cleanse data
• Managing data structures and building robust data models for analytics and reporting
• Putting data quality controls in place and preparing datasets for visualisation
• Working on-prem and in the cloud within secure environments
• Gathering and validating data requirements directly with the customer
• Tuning data workflows for speed, cost and reliability
• Helping set data engineering best practice and presenting findings to stakeholders

What you’ll need

• Proven Data Engineering experience in a defence environment
• Snowflake and Databricks (essential)
• Strong SQL and Python
• Pipeline tools like Airflow or Spark
• AWS and/or Azure
• Solid grasp of data modelling, integration and governance
• Current SC or DV clearance

What’s in it for you

• Annual bonus
• Matched pension and healthcare
• Flexi-time (37.5 hour week, structured how you like)
• Training budget for courses and conferences
• Small business culture with the backing of a large organisation