Lead Data Engineer (All Genders)
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Job Summary
About Us
Were focused on delivering deployable high-performance systemsnot future a time of rising threats STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe - today.
Your mission
As the Lead Data Engineer you will own the full data lifecycle at Stark Defence across telemetry testing flight operations qualification and certification. Building a robust data function that turns raw system output into reliable decision-ready information for engineering flight test and program leadership.
Responsibilities
- Capture ingest and structure all telemetry and test data across air ground and simulation environments.
- Develop a standardized data pipeline covering test runs flight runs and qualification events.
- Build dashboards and analytical tools that give real-time and historical visibility into system performance regressions and anomalies.
- Ensure data quality traceability and audit readiness for future qualification and certification work.
- Lead data strategy for long-term fleet operations (scalability streaming storage schema evolution).
- Partner with engineering teams to define metrics interfaces APIs and data formats.
- Establish governance around secure handling of sensitive and export-controlled data.
- Build and mentor a small data team over time (data engineering analytics possibly ML/controls interface).
Qualifications
- Strong background in data engineering telemetry systems or large-scale data pipelines in aerospace UAVs robotics or similar high-complexity hardware environments.
- Deep experience with ingestion ETL and time-series/streaming data (e.g. Kafka InfluxDB Parquet S3-based lakes).
- Experience building dashboards for engineering organizations (Grafana Superset internal tools).
- Understanding of flight test environments avionics data formats sensor fusion pipelines PX4/Ardupilot or proprietary telemetry protocols.
- Ability to design data structures that support qualification and certification evidence.
- Strong systems and software fundamentals; ability to work hands-on.
- Security-minded; familiar with export control and defence-sector data constraints (plus onboarding ability for our compliance stack).
- Proven leadership: builds processes aligns stakeholders drives execution.
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About us
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Due to the nature of our work in the defense sector candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance required for the position.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
About Company
LEGAL DISCLAIMER We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic pro ... View more
