Data Engineer

CACI Digital Experience (formerly Cyber-Duck)
Bristol
4 weeks ago
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About Us

We are the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) of CACI UK, a specialist technical consultancy providing bespoke solutions to solve complex operational problems. Due to some exciting growth within our Defence business, we are interested in speaking with an experienced Data Engineer to join us.


Role Location

You can work from any of our 5 offices in the UK (including Bristol, Cheltenham & London) or from home, you decide. The role will require regular trips to London.


The Role

The successful candidate will be focused on the delivery of high-priority projects where you will be supporting our customers across the full project lifecycle from initiation to conclusion. Working with a broad range of technical tools, you will be supporting compliance to data governance, standards and quality frameworks.


Key Responsibilities

  • Interpret and validate data requirements, gather and analyse large-scale structured datasets, and perform profiling within data environments to ensure accuracy and completeness.
  • Design and implement ETL frameworks to ingest, transform, validate, normalize, and cleanse data, ensuring it meets business and technical needs.
  • Apply data quality controls and prepare datasets for visualisation, implementing data models and manage storage solutions like Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
  • Support the development of data management standards and policies, including techniques for data synthesis and anonymisation to maintain compliance and security.
  • Develop robust data models to support analytics and reporting within secure environments.
  • Deliver performance optimisation through the monitoring and tuning of data workflows for speed, cost efficiency, and reliability.
  • Establish and refine best practices in data engineering, while contributing to advanced analytics and visualization strategies through research, evaluation of emerging technologies, and presentation of findings to stakeholders.

The Fit

The ideal candidate will have a background of working with industry best practices for data management, security, scalability, and awareness of Data Standards, Interoperability, Data Governance, and Data Sharing across security domains. We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology, enjoys problem-solving, and has a collaborative mindset.


Additional Skills Include

  • Proven experience as a Data Engineer within complex environments.
  • Strong knowledge of data management principles, including data modelling, integration, and governance.
  • Ability to assess existing data management systems and recommend improvements.
  • Familiarity with modern data architectures (e.g., cloud-based, distributed systems).
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Spark).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data technologies.
  • Awareness and evidence of Data Analytics and Visualisation.

Security Clearance

Due to the industries we work in, we require the successful candidate to be able to obtain high level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.


Why work for us? Benefits

  • Flexi-time: 37.5 hour weeks to structure how you want.
  • Hybrid working: Work from one of our offices or from home - you choose
  • L&D: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials.
  • Social: Fantastic culture with monthly social events.
  • Future You: Matched pension and health care package.

We offer a great L&D package including 5 days external training, a career coach and guilds to share innovation and learning. We also offer self-directed career progression, that fosters opportunities for success for us and our business.


We take great pride in taking care of our talent, providing a highly dynamic, inclusive and team-led environment where everyone can thrive.


Equal Opportunities

CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.


As a Disability Confident employer, we will;



  • Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on to discuss individual requirements further).
  • Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.

Our people are unique, and we encourage and support them to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.


Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Part-time

Job function

  • Information Technology

Industries

  • Technology, Information and Internet


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