Senior Data Fabric Engineer
QinetiQ
Overview
As a Senior Data Fabric Engineer at QinetiQ Farnborough, you will design, build and operate a secure, extensible data fabric for Defence and National Security. You’ll create a shared data integration platform that supports batch, streaming, and analyst workflows across DDIL edge environments. You’ll enable automation, governance, and secure data patterns to meet customer outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tech within a mission-driven, collaborative team that values innovation.
Pay / Benefits- Matched contribution pension with life assurance
- Generous holiday allowance
- Health Cash Plan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Armed Forces Covenant and Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
- Design and evolve the event-driven data fabric architecture for ingestion, storage, processing, metadata, governance and access patterns
- Build and operate workflow automation supporting reusable, configuration-driven analyst workflows and safe promotion across environments
- Provide configurable data integration via connectors and standard patterns with clear contracts and guardrails
- Engineer for DDIL and edge deployments, enabling local processing and secure configuration distribution
- Develop streaming ingestion and batch/stream processing using distributed technologies and Apache Flink and/or Apache Spark
- Implement metadata, lineage, catalogue, and policy-based security and governance
- Extensive experience as a data/platform engineer working on production distributed systems
- Hands-on with open-source data integration and streaming tech and reusable integration patterns
- Experience enabling workflow automation for technical users
- Strong data modelling fundamentals, data contracts and schema evolution
- Experience designing for reliability, scalability, operability, monitoring, deployment automation, incident handling, and performance tuning
- Practical security mindset with least privilege, auditability, and usable security controls
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem solving and proactive mindset
- Security-minded with focus on usability
- Open-source data integration and streaming technologies
- Connectors, reusable components, rules, and orchestration for data pipelines
- Workflow automation for technical users
Reference: WJ-747_30154956