Our client, a leading Defence & Security company, is currently seeking a Senior Data Fabric Engineer to join their dynamic team on a permanent basis in Farnborough.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing, implementing, and evolving the event-driven data fabric architecture that supports automation and AI-based systems, including ingestion, integration, storage, processing, metadata, governance, and access patterns
- Building and operating workflow automation capabilities to enable repeatable, governed analyst workflows
- Delivering configurable data integration through curated connectors and standard transformation patterns
- Engineering for Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communications environments, supporting local processing at the edge
- Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, and batch/stream processing workloads using technologies like Apache Flink and/or Apache Spark
- Implementing metadata, lineage, and catalogue capabilities along with policy-based security and governance
Job Requirements:
- Extensive experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production
- Proven hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies
- Experience enabling workflow automation for technical users
- Strong grasp of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts, and schema evolution
- Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability
- Practical security mindset, with an understanding of least privilege, auditability, and designing usable controls
Benefits:
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to purchase additional days
- Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets, and more
- Proud supporters of the Armed Forces community, maintaining Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
- Volunteering opportunities
If you are an experienced Senior Data Fabric Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in Defence & Security, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's innovative team in Farnborough.