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Data Engineer

Sanderson Government & DefenceGloucestershire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 17 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

We're looking for Data Engineers to help deliver secure, mission-critical solutions for customers across the National Security sector.

Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, you'll design and develop scalable data platforms, build robust data pipelines and transform complex datasets into meaningful insights. You'll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies, distributed systems and large-scale data environments on projects that have real-world impact.

Key Responsibilities

. Design and develop scalable data pipelines and ingestion frameworks
. Integrate, process and enrich data from multiple sources
. Build high-quality data services that support analytics and decision-making
. Optimise performance, reliability and security across data platforms
. Work within Agile delivery teams to design, develop and deploy secure solutions
. Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews and continuous improvement

Skills & Experience

. Commercial experience in Data Engineering
. Strong Python or Java development skills
. Experience with AWS cloud services
. Knowledge of Apache Spark, Hadoop, NiFi or similar big data technologies
. Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and processing large datasets
. Understanding of software engineering best practices, testing and CI/CD
. Comfortable working in Agile environments

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Skills

AWS
ETL
Agile
Apache
Apache Spark
Hadoop
Java
Python

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