Data Engineer

I am currently looking for a Data Engineer to work onsite for a Defence company in Gloucester.

** Please note: suitable candidates must hold current transferrable UKIC DV clearance. This role will also require 5 days working onsite (no option to work remotely) **

Location: Gloucester / Customer Site- No Hybrid Working
Duration: Until the 31/03/2027
Day Rate: £600-640 per day Inside IR35 dependant on experience
Clearance: Candidates should hold a current transferable U**C DV, a BPSS check will also be undertaken
IR35: Inside

Scope of Work:

• To work in a customer based team on the priorities set at the planning event. This may include development of new features, support request and sustainment tasks for the customer’s Geo analytics and pipelines. 
• In parallel, the resource will also be involved in a system re-fresh.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Providing direction/guidance within the scrum team
• Liaise with the Technical Lead
• Be able to help the scrum team decompose epics and stories.
• Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
• Create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse
• Produce detailed designs
• Effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• Work with well understood and emerging technologies and identify appropriate patterns
• Maintain and develop existing architectural components
• Participate in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand-ups, epic decomposition, demos and planning sessions.
• Assist the wider team to understand upcoming features and their impact.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Java, Apache Pig or Python
• Self-driven

In addition, the following skills are desirable:

• Big data analysis/ Analytics
• AWS
• Geo
• HS data movement tooling/ practices
• Analytics Tooling experience