Associate Data Engineer

QinetiQ; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Life assurance

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan

Job summary

QinetiQ Limited is seeking an Associate Data Engineer to design, build and operate a secure data fabric for Defence and National Security customers. You will enable data integration across batch, streaming and analytics, including edge deployments with DDIL considerations.

You will work on event-driven architectures, governance, and policy-based security while delivering repeatable deployment patterns and scalable solutions at the Farnborough site. Hybrid working options are available.

Qualifications

• Experience as a data/platform engineer on distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on with open-source data integration and streaming technologies and configurable integration patterns.
• Experience enabling workflow automation for technical users.
• Strong grasp of data modelling fundamentals, contracts and schema evolution.
• Experience designing for reliability, scalability, operability with monitoring and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and evolve the event-driven data fabric architecture for automation and AI-based systems.
• Support building and operating workflow automation capabilities for analysts.
• Deliver configurable data integration through connectors and standard patterns with clear guardrails.
• Engineer for DDIL and edge deployments with secure config distribution.
• Build streaming ingestion, pipelines, and batch/stream processing with Spark/Flink.

Skills

Distributed systems

Open-source tools

Workflow automation

Data modelling

Reliability & scalability

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Job description

Package: £45,000 - £50,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role ID: SF19583

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to groundbreaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as an Associate Data Engineer at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

As an Associate Data Engineer, you will further design, build and operate our secure, open, and extensible data fabric capability for Defence and National Security customers.

Day-to-day, you will create a shared “paved road” that lets teams integrate, govern, and consume data products both safely and quickly across batch, streaming and analyst-driven workflows. This includes enabling workflow automation and configurable data integration with resilient operation in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments supporting edge deployments.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, implementing, and evolving the event-driven data fabric architecture that enables automation and downstream AI-based systems: ingestion, integration, storage, processing, metadata, governance, and access patterns aligned to customer outcomes and security constraints
• Supporting with building and operating workflow automation capabilities that enable repeatable, governed analyst workflows (reusable patterns, configuration-driven behaviours, and safe promotion across environments)
• Delivering configurable data integration through curated connectors and standard patterns for transformation, routing, enrichment and correlation with clear contract and operational guardrails
• Engineering for DDIL and edge deployments: Design Patterns for constrained connectivity, supporting appropriate local processing at edge and implementing secure configuration distribution
• Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, batch/stream processing workloads using both distributed event streaming technologies and Apache Flink and/or Apache Spark with clear SLA’s and repeatable deployment
• Implementing metadata, lineage and catalogue capabilities and implementing policy-based security and governance

Essential experience of the Associate Data Engineer:

• Previous experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production
• Proven hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies and delivering configurable integration patterns (connectors, reusable components, rules, and orchestration)
• Previous experience enabling workflow automation for technical users
• A strong grasp of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts and schema evolution
• Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability: monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, incident handling, and performance tuning
• A practical security mindset: least privilege, auditability and designing controls that do not restrict usability

Essential qualifications for the Associate Data Engineer:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Farnborough

At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

• 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 much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be willing to go through DV Clearance.