Data Engineer

Location: Central London, 5 days onsite

Salary: £60,000 – £100,000 depending on experience

Clearance: Active SC or DV required

⭐ Enhanced DV (eDV) sponsorship provided

We’re supporting an fast-growing engineering SME that is expanding its presence across the UK National Security space and looking to build out its Data Engineering capability in London.

A major part of this opportunity is the chance to progress your existing SC or DV clearance to enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

Alongside this, you’ll be joining a business at an exciting point in its growth. The team is still relatively small, meaning you’ll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact, develop your technical skills and progress as the company expands.

They’re looking for technically capable, curious engineers rather than people who simply tick every box on a job description. If you have strong engineering fundamentals, enjoy solving difficult problems and want to continue developing your career within National Security, they’re keen to speak.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines and platforms
• Ingesting, transforming and processing complex structured and unstructured datasets
• Developing data solutions supporting analytics, AI and machine learning
• Working with technologies including Python, PySpark, Spark and SQL
• Working across modern cloud and data engineering environments
• Collaborating closely with Software, Data and Platform Engineers
• Improving data quality, reliability, scalability and performance
• Contributing to technical design and architecture decisions
• Working across greenfield and evolving National Security programmes
• Taking on greater technical responsibility as the team grows

What we're looking for

• Experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering or a closely related technical discipline
• Strong programming capability, ideally Python
• Experience with data processing, transformation or pipeline development
• Knowledge of SQL and data modelling
• Strong problem-solving and engineering fundamentals
• An ability and willingness to learn new technologies
• Someone who enjoys working within a small, collaborative and hands-on engineering environment
• Ambition to develop technically and progress as the business grows
• Current SC or DV clearance
• Ability to work 5 days onsite in Central London

Desirable experience

• Experience with PySpark / Apache Spark, AWS, ETL/data pipelines, batch or streaming architectures, Kubernetes/containerised environments, AI/ML,
• Previous work within Defence, Government or National Security environments would be beneficial.
• You don't need experience across all of these areas. Technical aptitude, curiosity and the ability to learn are equally important.

Why join?

The business is offering successful candidates a route from SC/DV into enhanced DV, supporting you through training and progression towards your career in engineering,  and enabling you to work within some of the UK's most sensitive National Security environments.

• Gain enhanced DV (eDV) clearance
• Access highly sensitive National Security programmes
• Progress your career as the business and engineering team expand
• Receive ongoing training and technical development
• Work across modern Data, AI and Machine Learning technologies
• Take on increasing levels of responsibility and influence
• Work closely with senior engineers and leadership
• Help shape the technical capability of a growing business

If you're an SC or DV-cleared Data Engineer, or a Software Engineer looking to move further into Data, I'd be keen to hear from you.  Equally, if someone in your network could be a good fit, we'd really appreciate an introduction. We offer a £500 referral bonus for any candidate you recommend who goes on to start a permanent or contract role through Frontier Resourcing.