Data Engineer

A defence and national security consultancy is looking for a senior engineer to own the design of its cloud-native data platforms Title: Data Engineer Location: London, Cheltenham, Manchester or Surrey Salary: £55,000 - £85,000 plus DV bonus Clearance: Active eDV required Level: Mid/Senior Tired of keeping pipelines alive? Move into a role where you own the architecture. The customers are in Defence, Government and National Security, and the datasets are big, messy and multi-source. You'll work closely with data scientists, software engineers and architects, and directly with the client, so you always know what the platform is for. What you'll be working on Data platforms and pipelines, batch and streaming, built for scale Data lakes and cloud-native architecture on AWS or Azure Ingesting and integrating data from lots of different sources Data foundations for analytics, AI and ML workloads DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code Python, SQL, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD Why it's worth a look Real influence over how platforms get designed and built Close to the customer and the decision-makers Exposure to AI/ML workloads, not just moving data from A to B Must have: commercial data engineering experience, strong Python and SQL, hands-on Spark, and cloud-native platform experience on AWS or Azure. Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD. Nice to have: data modelling and metadata management, AI/ML pipelines and feature engineering. As an industry leading, nationwide…