About the role

  • Data Engineer at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence collaborating with clients to improve data management. Enhancing workflows and supporting data architecture with a focus on quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • A Data Engineer's role is to work closely with clients to understand their requirements to process, store and serve data.
  • An Engineer will commonly work alongside data architect, scientists and analyst to build and support data flows.
  • They will apply concepts from software engineering and DevOps and use data tools from a large and varied data landscape to present and host datasets for downstream consumption.
  • The scope and responsibilities of a data engineer are wide-ranging and largely driven by the data maturity of the clients business.
  • A clear understanding of a clients needs are essential to ensuring data engineering outputs are successful, as is the ability to work with other data roles and interact across multiple organisational units.

Requirements

  • Build, improve and maintain data flows to extract, transform and load data
  • Follow software engineering and DataOps best practices to rapidly develop and deploy high quality components
  • Communicate with technical and non-technical people to build trust and rapport across the business
  • Work with stakeholder to understand business problems sufficiently to have a clear picture of requirements
  • Collaborate effectively within and across teams
  • Show ability to quickly learn and adapt to evolving data engineering toolsets and techniques
  • Demonstrate core technical skills around SQL, Python or similar programming languages
  • Demonstrate fundamental skills in data management, orchestration, security and data modelling
  • Setup cloud services to host data infrastructure and store data
  • Senior Data Engineers are also expected to lead data teams from a technical perspective and setup delivery frameworks to ensure effective delivery
  • Engage with business stakeholders to define work packages and build teams
  • Lead design session and selection of strategic data products for data engineering platforms
  • Build out skills and experience in other data practices around data modelling, architecture, strategy, science and analysis
  • Demonstrate increasing breadth and depth across a range of data engineering products

Benefits

  • Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
  • You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
  • Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
  • You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
  • You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme
  • You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing
  • Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

Job title

Senior Data Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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