Data Engineer, AI & Data, Defence & Security (DV clearance required)

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 4-5years

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Contract Job Title: Data Engineer AI & Data Defence & Security (DV clearance required)
Contract Start Date: March 2026
Contract Length: 12 months with potential extension
Contract Classification: Inside IR25
Contract Location: London Bristol or Manchester with hybrid working (2/3 days in the office)

** Mandatory requirement: Must have DV Clearance **

Role Overview:

We are proud of the impact we have with our Defence & Security clients the strength of our relationships and the variety of our skills and expertise that we bring to help them achieve their mission. Were growing our teams across all of Technology and Transformation.

If you are cleared DV level we are very keen to hear from you.

As a practitioner you are responsible for bridging the gap between our customers needs and technical solutions. Your primary responsibility is to make data valuable for our clients by developing pipelines that ingest transform and enrich high volume and variety data into accessible trusted information assets that can be used to derive actionable insights.

In your role you will have responsibility for deliverables and client stakeholder relationships and will be delivering solutions for our clients using agile methodologies. You will often be working in multi-disciplinary teams across a range of industries subject matters and locations.

Our projects vary greatly and your responsibility as a consultant will differ based on the focus of the client engagement and your skillset but could include and may require you to:

Apply data engineering tools integration frameworks and query engines to create high quality standardised data for downstream use cases such as for AI and reporting.
Design and implement high quality data pipelines and data stores coordinating efforts with other developers and engineers.
Bring innovation and novel approaches to solve challenging data engineering problems.
Architect and implement for scale and complexity that provide value across many teams and consumers.
Develop logical and physical data modeling and governance strategy establishing standards across teams.

Required Skills & Experience:

Candidates will have hands on experience with one or more technologies relevant to these areas:

All applicants must hold UK security clearance to Developed Vetting level
Distributed computing techniques like parallel processing streaming batch workflow orchestration that enable handling large data volumes.
ETL data pipelines and automated workflows for moving and processing data.
Optimising data systems for performance scalability reliability and monitoring.
Information security including access controls encryption anonymity for sensitive data assets.
Data governance including metadata management data quality and lineage tracking.

We are specifically looking for candidates with both technical and business focused skills who can articulate the outcomes and value of their work and have working experience in some of the following:

End to-end development experience with data pipelines ETL processes workflow orchestration - using core concepts that apply across tech stacks.
Working with diverse data sources and types - batch streaming real-time and unstructured.
Systems thinking and architectural design skills for building scalable high-performance data solutions.
Data modelling warehouse design database optimization knowledge - with samples of logical/physical models that reflect proficiency.
Deploying and managing distributed data systems.
Ability to monitor troubleshoot and tune these systems for reliability and performance.
Coding experience that demonstrates modularity reusability and efficiency - across languages.
Understanding full development lifecycle SDLC concepts version control CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of data security governance metadata management master data principles.
Communication skills ability to understand business requirements and translate to technical data solutions

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Contract Job Title: Data Engineer AI & Data Defence & Security (DV clearance required) Contract Start Date: March 2026Contract Length: 12 months with potential extension Contract Classification: Inside IR25Contract Location: London Bristol or Manchester with hybrid working (2/3 days in the office) *...