Associate Data Fabric Engineer – Edge & DDIL Automation

QinetiQ; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan options

Employee discount portal

Volunteering Opportunities

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Farnborough seeks an Associate Data Fabric Engineer to design and implement a secure data fabric capability for defense and national security. This role involves building streaming ingestion pipelines, implementing workflow automation, and requires hands-on experience with open-source technologies like Apache Flink and Spark. Embrace the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and become a part of a diverse team focused on innovation and excellence.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems.
• 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 and schema evolution.
• Experience designing for reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve event-driven data fabric architecture.
• Build and operate workflow automation capabilities.
• Deliver configurable data integration through curated connectors.
• Design for constrained connectivity in edge environments.
• Build streaming ingestion and event pipelines.
• Implement metadata, lineage, and policy-based security.

Skills

Experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems

Hands-on experience with open-source data integration technologies

Workflow automation for technical users

Data modelling fundamentals

Reliability, scalability, operability design

Practical security mindset

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Job description

A leading technology firm in Farnborough seeks an Associate Data Fabric Engineer to design and implement a secure data fabric capability for defense and national security. This role involves building streaming ingestion pipelines, implementing workflow automation, and requires hands-on experience with open-source technologies like Apache Flink and Spark. Embrace the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and become a part of a diverse team focused on innovation and excellence.