Data Engineer - Defence (Hybrid)

The Digital Defence Services Business Unit in BAE Systems Digital Intelligence delivers mission focused solutions for digital transformation to clients across Land, Sea, Air, Space and Cyber.

We are looking for experienced Data Engineers to join our team following continuous growth and success in the UK Government and Defence sectors.

Behind great solutions there are great people: our employees. We pride ourselves on being able to solve some of our customers’ most complex problems.

Our people are what differentiate us, they are ingenious, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. In general, we work in teams. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with balanced, high quality solutions.

Our breadth across the UK Government and Defence sectors provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise or with new clients.

What you could be doing for us:

• Design, develop, test and support data collection, data integration and ETL applications to make information and data available to key client stakeholders and technical interfaces
• Model data requirements, data sources and data flows to bring order and structure to programmes of work
• Defining how and where data is created, mastered and destroyed to ensure proper controlover the lifecycle of corporate data assets
• Using categories of products that can be used to collect, integrate, store, visualise and govern data and metadata
• Define metadata to provide searchability and governance (including Records Management) for unstructured data.

Role Accountabilities:

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and robust code.
• Experience with software engineering best practices and good development hygiene.
• Experience with big data technologies.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
• Team player, able to work well with colleagues of all backgrounds and seniorities, including client colleagues, other consultants, and partnering organisations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to broad array of stakeholders of varying technical understanding and seniority, with appropriate tailoring.
• Adaptable with strong ability to pick up new domain specific knowledge and understand the context of a project.
• Able to guide, lead and develop peers.

What background are we looking for?

• Data Engineering, Analysis or Science, with a solid understanding of programming languages along with experience of applying them in your previous role.
• Experience in using Data Engineering tools and technology ETL tools including Python and a number of the Big Data Applications. Rather than specifying a list of technologies we look for, demonstrable ability in what you have used previously, along with adaptability and willingness to learn is what we value
• A good understanding of Open Source software for Data Engineering and can evaluate these platforms against products. Given a customer problem you can analyse and evaluate options and recommend solutions.
• An understanding of maintaining and applies up to date, specialist knowledge of database concepts (including unstructured, NoSQL and ”big data” platforms), object and data modelling techniques.
• Previous experience working in the domain of Cyber Security and Intelligence is desirable, but not essential.

Security Clearance

Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our, work successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting

Life at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

About BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

We use our intelligence-led insights to help defend Governments, Nations and Societies from cyber-attacks and financial crime. Our customers depend on our evolving capabilities to help them safely grow their organisations. Our unprecedented access to threat intelligence, world-leading analysts and market-leading technology means we can help them to adapt, evolve and stay ahead of the criminals.

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Applied Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.