Job Title: DV Cleared Data Engineer
Location: Bath
Duration: 12 months
Rate: Up to £500 per day
Note: Must be willing and eligible to go through the DV clearance process
Our client, a reputable organisation supporting high-profile government programmes, is hiring a DV Cleared Data Engineer to join a critical, secure environment. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines and platforms to enable advanced analytics and intelligence operations.
What you'll be doing:
- Develop, optimise, and support scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) within secure environments.
- Manage ETL/ELT processes for diverse datasets, ensuring data quality, lineage, and governance.
- Collaborate with technical and business teams to translate complex requirements into effective data solutions.
- Maintain Elasticsearch solutions for indexing, search, and real time data discovery.
- Ensure data platforms meet security, accreditation, and information assurance standards.
- Contribute to modern data architecture design across cloud and on premise environments.
- Support Agile delivery teams, including Scrum and SAFe.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer in secure government, defence, or intelligence settings.
- Strong Python and SQL development skills.
- Hands on experience with data integration tools like Airflow, NiFi, Azure Data Factory, or AWS Glue.
- Expertise in Elasticsearch management, indexing, and query optimisation.
- Knowledge of data modelling, warehousing, and modern data platform architectures.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) in secure environments.
- Understanding of data security, governance, and information assurance.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
Desirable:
- Experience within UK Defence, Intelligence, or National Security sectors.
- Knowledge of big data tools such as Kafka, Spark, or Hadoop.
- Support for machine learning or advanced analytics workloads.
- Experience working with classified datasets and Elastic Stack (ELK).
If you're ready to contribute to vital national security projects, apply now!