Our client, a leader in the Defence and Security sector, is currently seeking an Associate Data Fabric Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis in Farnborough. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and support Defence and National Security customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing, implementing, and evolving event-driven data fabric architecture to support automation and AI-based systems
- Building workflow automation capabilities for repeatable, governed analyst workflows
- Delivering configurable data integration via curated connectors and standard transformation patterns
- Engineering for Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments, enabling edge deployments
- Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, and batch/stream processing workloads
- Implementing metadata, lineage, and catalogue capabilities with policy-based security and governance
Job Requirements:
- Experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production
- Hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies
- Experience in enabling workflow automation for technical users
- Strong understanding of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts, and schema evolution
- Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability
- Strong practical security mindset focused on least privilege and auditability
Benefits:
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to purchase additional days
- Options to join Health Cash Plan and Private Medical Insurance
- Employee discount portal including Personal Accident Insurance and Travel Insurance
- Volunteering opportunities and support for the Armed Forces community
If you are an experienced Data Platform Engineer looking for a new challenge in a cutting-edge environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and innovative team in Farnborough.