Senior Data Engineer – Secure, Scalable Data Pipelines (London)

Raytheon Systems; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in London to join an experienced Software Engineering team. You will build and maintain data pipelines, transform data for analytics, and collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines.

The role focuses on agile delivery, data quality, and continuous improvement of data architectures within a defence and aerospace context. Onsite work and active clearances are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in an Agile delivery team.
• Strong analytics with unstructured data.
• Proficiency in Python-based data engineering tools.
• Experience with distributed data processing and ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and data streaming.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data processing pipelines.
• Transform and optimise data for analytics use.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers.
• Contribute to project milestones and team improvements.
• Define technical direction within the team.

Skills

Agile delivery

Analytical skills

Python (PySpark)

Distributed data processing

Data ETL

Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Messaging/Streaming (Kafka)

SQL

NoSQL

Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes/Op

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Airflow

AWS Step Functions

Apache NiFi

PyArrow

Pandas

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Spark SQL

Job description

Raytheon UK is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in London to join an experienced Software Engineering team. You will build and maintain data pipelines, transform data for analytics, and collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines.

The role focuses on agile delivery, data quality, and continuous improvement of data architectures within a defence and aerospace context. Onsite work and active clearances are required.