Data Engineer

Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most.

And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

Data Engineer – National Security Business

Be part of a growing and highly trusted supplier into the NS domain working to deliver mission critical solutions helping to keep the nation safe, secure and prosperous.

Working on leading edge technology solutions including AI/DS, Cyber, Cloud, DevOPs/SRE, Platform Engineering

We have secured long term work, across the full spectrum, on the latest framework with the client, which provides the springboard for our ongoing growth and development in this domain, so join us on what will be an incredible growth journey.

Role

As a Data Engineer, you’ll be actively involved in development of mission critical technical solutions that focus on data services for our National Security customers.

You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.

As our next Data Engineer, you’ll be managing and developing data pipelines and analytics that transform raw data into valuable insights for Roke’s National Security customers, enabling downstream analytics and reporting. You’ll be working with diverse data sources, applying distributed compute techniques to handle large datasets.

You will be responsible for

• Data pipeline development – Data ingestion and pipeline orchestration design and tooling.
• Data integration – Integrating and enriching data from various sources, ensuring data consistency and quality.
• Data analytics – Extracting valuable insights from data to provide customers with actionable intelligence.
• Data security – Implementing data security measures to protect sensitive information.
• Data systems – Monitoring for performance issues and making any necessary optimisations/updates.
• Helping the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories.
• Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach.
• Creating code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse.

Required Skills

• Experience with Big Data technologies, such as Apache Hadoop, Spark or Pig
• AWS
• Apache NiFi
• Python or Java

Built on over a 70 year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Clearances…

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance.