Associate Data Fabric Engineer

Package:  45,000 - 50,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits Role :
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Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to groundbreaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as an Associate Data Fabric Engineer at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role As an Associate Data Fabric Engineer, you will further design, build and operate our secure, open, and extensible data fabric capability for Defence and National Security customers.

Day-to-day, you will create a shared “paved road” that lets teams integrate, govern, and consume data products both safely and quickly across batch, streaming and analyst-driven workflows. This includes enabling workflow automation and configurable data integration with resilient operation in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments supporting edge deployments.

Your responsibilities will include:

Designing, implementing, and evolving the event-driven data fabric architecture that enables automation and downstream AI-based systems: ingestion, integration, storage, processing, metadata, governance, and access patterns aligned to customer outcomes and security constraints

Supporting with building and operating workflow automation capabilities that enable repeatable, governed analyst workflows (reusable patterns, configuration-driven behaviours, and safe promotion across environments)
Delivering configurable data integration through curated connectors and standard patterns for transformation, routing, enrichment and correlation with clear contract and operational guardrails

Engineering for DDIL and edge deployments:
Design Patterns for constrained connectivity, supporting appropriate local processing at edge and implementing secure configuration distribution

Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, batch/stream processing workloads using both distributed event streaming technologies and Apache Flink and/or Apache Spark with clear SLA’s and repeatable deployment

Implementing metadata, lineage and catalogue capabilities and implementing policy-based security and governance

Essential experience of the Associate Data Fabric Engineer:

Previous experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production

Proven hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies and delivering configurable integration patterns (connectors, reusable components, rules, and orchestration)
Previous experience enabling workflow automation for technical usersA strong grasp of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts and schema evolution

Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability: monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, incident handling, and performance tuningA practical security mindset: least privilege, auditability and designing controls that do not restrict usability

Essential qualifications for the Associate Data Fabric Engineer:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Farnborough At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.Why

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