Senior Data Engineer

A Data Engineer's role is to work closely with clients to understand their requirements to process, store and serve data. An Engineer will commonly work alongside data architect, scientists and analyst to build and support data flows. They will apply concepts from software engineering and DevOps and use data tools from a large and varied data landscape to present and host datasets for downstream consumption. The scope and responsibilities of a data engineer are wide ranging and largely driven by the data maturity of the clients business. A clear understanding of a clients needs are essential to ensuring data engineering outputs are successful, as is the ability to work with other data roles and interact across multiple organisational units. Data Engineers must understand the requirements of data consumers and the broader impact of data across the clients business such that they view their responsibilities through both technical and business perspectives.

In this role, you will:

• Build, improve and maintain data flows to extract, transform and load data
• Follow software engineering and DataOps best practices to rapidly develop and deploy high quality components
• Communicate with technical and non-technical people to build trust and rapport across the business.
• Work with stakeholder to understand business problems sufficiently to have a clear picture of requirements.
• Collaborate effectively within and across teams
• Show ability to quickly learn and adapt to evolving data engineering toolsets and techniques
• demonstrate core technical skills around SQL, Python or similar programming languages
• demonstrate fundamental skills in data management, orchestration, security and data modelling
• setup cloud services to host data infrastructure and store data

Senior Data Engineers are also expected to:

• Lead data teams from a technical perspective and setup delivery frameworks to ensure effective delivery
• Engage with business stakeholders to define work packages and build teams
• Lead design session and selection of strategic data products for data engineering platforms
• Build out skills and experience in other data practices around data modelling, architecture, strategy, science and analysis
• Demonstrate increasing breadth and depth across a range of data engineering products

Do you have experience in SQL?, Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

• Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
• As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office
• You'll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
• Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
• You'll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
• You'll be part of our company bonus scheme
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments., You'll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We'll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that's virtually or in person, as conditions allow. You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team. We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years' experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions., You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We're a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You'll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We're passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you'll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA., https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/uk-businesses/digital-intelligence/markets/national-security-and-law-enforcement Help us secure a connected world. Apply now and be inspired. Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being. Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.   You must create an Indeed account before continuing to the company website to apply