Data Engineer

Data Engineer (DV Cleared)
London, 4 days on site
Inside IR35: £750 - £800 p/d
Initially till March 2027, 18 month programme

Build data products that make a real operational difference. A leading GovTech partner to the MOD wants a DV-cleared Data Engineer to design and build open-source data pipelines for a UK defence customer.

What you'll do

• Design and ship new data products from scratch, often against tight, shifting timelines
• Build and improve data pipelines, mostly with open-source tools
• Deploy using containers, Kubernetes and CI/CD on Linux, inside an Azure Stack Hub environment
• Catalogue and organise data so people can find it and trust it
• Try out emerging tools, including pipeline orchestration and graph databases
• Explain what you built, why, and how it works, to technical and non-technical colleagues
• Work alongside data architecture, governance and data quality specialists

What you'll bring

• Active DV clearance
• Strong Python and a track record of building data pipelines and data products
• Hands-on experience with open-source data engineering tools
• Linux, CI/CD, containers and Kubernetes
• Experience in defence, national security or intelligence, and fluency in how that world works
• Calm judgement under pressure, with firm deadlines and changing priorities
• Clear, concise writing and speaking

Bonus points for

• Apache Airflow, Kafka or NiFi
• OpenSearch
• Azure or Azure Stack Hub
• Data catalogue tools or graph databases

Why you'll want this

• Your work matters: the data products you build feed real operational decisions
• Greenfield builds on a modern open-source stack, with room to learn new tech
• Join a team trusted across the MOD, including Army HQ, DE&S and Defence Digital