Security-Cleared Senior Data Engineer (Hybrid)

Electus Recruitment; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions up to 14%

Up to 15 flexi leave days

Paid overtime opportunities

Flexible hybrid working

Job summary

Electus Recruitment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own enterprise scale data platforms supporting complex environments in a defence context. You will shape data strategy, influence technical direction, and build solutions delivering long-term value.

You will design end-to-end data solutions, build scalable pipelines, and create analytics platforms and Power BI reporting for a wide user base while advancing DataOps and data governance practices.

Qualifications

• Proven data engineering experience within defence, aerospace, manufacturing or another complex industrial environment.
• Strong Python and SQL expertise.
• Experience building ETL or ELT data pipelines and modern data platforms.
• Comfortable engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business areas.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver end to end data solutions across a diverse defence organisation.
• Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines from multiple operational and engineering sources.
• Develop data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses and analytics platforms that enable better decision making.
• Create Power BI reporting and self-service analytics capabilities for a broad user community.
• Drive improvements in data governance, quality, lineage, security and DataOps practices.
• Contribute to modern hybrid and on-premise platform architectures supporting long term business growth.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Spark or Kafka

Stakeholder engagement

Power BI

DevOps/DataOps

Data architecture

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Electus Recruitment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own enterprise scale data platforms supporting complex environments in a defence context. You will shape data strategy, influence technical direction, and build solutions delivering long-term value.

You will design end-to-end data solutions, build scalable pipelines, and create analytics platforms and Power BI reporting for a wide user base while advancing DataOps and data governance practices.