Associate Data Fabric Engineer

Our client, a leader in the Defence and Security sector, is currently seeking an Associate Data Fabric Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis in Farnborough. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and support Defence and National Security customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and evolving event-driven data fabric architecture to support automation and AI-based systems
• Building workflow automation capabilities for repeatable, governed analyst workflows
• Delivering configurable data integration via curated connectors and standard transformation patterns
• Engineering for Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments, enabling edge deployments
• Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, and batch/stream processing workloads
• Implementing metadata, lineage, and catalogue capabilities with policy-based security and governance

Job Requirements:

• Experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production
• Hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies
• Experience in enabling workflow automation for technical users
• Strong understanding of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts, and schema evolution
• Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability
• Strong practical security mindset focused on least privilege and auditability

Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan and Private Medical Insurance
• Employee discount portal including Personal Accident Insurance and Travel Insurance
• Volunteering opportunities and support for the Armed Forces community

If you are an experienced Data Platform Engineer looking for a new challenge in a cutting-edge environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and innovative team in Farnborough.