Contract Data Engineer - SC Cleared

Fruition Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Group is seeking a Contract Data Engineer (SC Cleared) to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS for a government programme. This 6‑month remote UK engagement offers a day rate that is competitive and outside IR35.

You will collaborate with data scientists on ML workloads, orchestrate workflows with Airflow or Prefect, and write production‑grade Python and SQL while deploying via Kubernetes and Terraform in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Active SC Clearance required
• British citizenship required due to government programme
• Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer
• Advanced Python and SQL
• Experience with Airflow or Prefect
• Hands-on AWS data services experience (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, Athena)
• Experience supporting ML workloads (PyTorch / TensorFlow / Scikit-learn) desirable
• MLflow desirable and familiarity with Kubernetes or Terraform beneficial

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS
• Develop and orchestrate workflows using Airflow (or Prefect)
• Ingest, transform and model data for analytics and ML
• Collaborate with data scientists to support ML and computer vision pipelines
• Write clean, tested production-grade Python and SQL
• Work with DevOps on deploying pipelines into Kubernetes and Terraform environments
• Follow secure engineering practices suitable for a government programme

Skills

SC clearance

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Cloud data pipelines

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

AWS data services

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

MLflow

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Job Title: Contract Data Engineer - SC Cleared
Location: UK Remote
Duration: 6 months
Day rate: Competitive market rate - Outside IR35

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS
• Develop and orchestrate workflows using Airflow (or Prefect)
• Ingest, transform and model data so it is reliable and ready for analytics and machine learning
• Work with data scientists to support ML and computer vision workloads, including model training and tracking pipelines
• Write clean, tested, production-grade Python and SQL
• Work with DevOps Engineers on deploying pipelines into a Kubernetes and Terraform environment
• Follow secure engineering practices suitable for a government programme

Requirements

• Active SC Clearance (essential)
• British Citizenship (essential, due to the secure nature of the project)
• Strong commercial experience as a Data Engineer
• Advanced Python and SQL
• Pipeline orchestration with Airflow or Prefect
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift and Athena
• Experience supporting ML workloads using PyTorch, TensorFlow or Scikit-learn (desirable)
• MLflow (desirable)
• Exposure to Kubernetes or Terraform (beneficial but not required)

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age