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: £(Apply online only) 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