Senior Data Fabric Engineer

QinetiQ; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan

Employee discount portal

Volunteering Opportunities

Job summary

A leading defense technology firm based in Farnborough is looking for a Senior Data Fabric Engineer to design and operate secure data capabilities for Defense and National Security. You will enable workflow automation, build data integration patterns, and implement governance/security protocols. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in data integration, platforms, and streaming technologies. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits, with hybrid working options available.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production.
• Proven hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies.
• Experience enabling workflow automation for technical users.
• Strong grasp of data modeling fundamentals and schema evolution.
• Designing for reliability, scalability, and operability.
• A practical security mindset: least privilege, auditability and designing controls that do not restrict usability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build our secure, open, and extensible data fabric for Defence and National Security customers.
• Create a shared paved road for quick data integration and governance.
• Build streaming ingestion and batch processing workloads using distributed technologies.
• Implement metadata, lineage and policy-based security and governance.
• 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

Skills

Data integration

Streaming technologies

Workflow automation

Data modeling

Security mindset

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Edge computing

Job description

Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF19584

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 ground breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Data Fabric 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 a Senior Data Fabric 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
• 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 Senior Data Fabric Engineer:

• Extensive 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 Senior Data Fabric 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

Our Benefits

• 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.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)