Associate Data Fabric Engineer

Our client, a leader in the Defence and Security sector, is currently seeking an Associate Data Fabric Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis in Farnborough. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and support Defence and National Security customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing, implementing, and evolving event-driven data fabric architecture to support automation and AI-based systems
Building workflow automation capabilities for repeatable, governed analyst workflows
Delivering configurable data integration via curated connectors and standard transformation patterns
Engineering for Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments, enabling edge deployments
Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, and batch/stream processing workloads
Implementing metadata, lineage, and catalogue capabilities with policy-based security and governance

Job Requirements:

Experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production
Hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies
Experience in enabling workflow automation for technical users
Strong understanding of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts, and schema evolution
Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability
Strong practical security mindset focused on least privilege and auditability

Benefits:

Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
Generous holiday allowance with the option to purchase additional days
Options to join Health Cash Plan and Private Medical Insurance
Employee discount portal including Personal Accident Insurance and Travel Insurance
Volunteering opportunities and support for the Armed Forces community

If you are an experienced Data Platform Engineer looking for a new challenge in a cutting-edge environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and innovative team in Farnborough.