Senior Data Engineer

WINSEARCH
Gloucester, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 141K

Job location

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Audit Trail
Azure
Backup Devices
Batch Processing
Big Data
Continuous Integration
Data Architecture
Information Engineering
Data Retention
Data Security
Data Systems
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Distributed Systems
Elasticsearch
Performance Tuning
Role-Based Access Control
Logstash
Data Processing
Data Ingestion
System Availability
Spark
GIT
Data Analytics
Kafka
Apache Nifi
Data Management
Kibana
Stream Processing
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Docker

Job description

We are recruiting on behalf of a highly secure engineering and technology programme seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support the design, development and delivery of secure, scalable and high-performance data solutions within a regulated environment.

This role will focus heavily on the Elastic Stack and Apache NiFi, supporting enterprise-scale data ingestion, transformation and analytics capabilities across complex secure systems.

The successful candidate will play a key role in architecting resilient data platforms, optimising real-time and batch processing pipelines, and ensuring compliance with strict governance and security standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Architecture & Engineering

  • Design and implement scalable, resilient data pipeline architectures using Elastic Stack and Apache NiFi

  • Develop secure frameworks for data ingestion, transformation and integration

  • Build and maintain batch and real-time data processing pipelines

  • Ensure high standards of data quality, integrity and traceability across all systems

Elastic Stack & Platform Management

  • Configure, optimise and maintain Elasticsearch clusters for performance and resilience

  • Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines for efficient data processing

  • Create dashboards and visualisations within Kibana to support operational and strategic reporting

  • Monitor and manage large-scale data flows and platform performance in real time

  • Carry out troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance tuning activities

Security, Governance & Resilience

  • Work closely with security and governance teams to ensure compliance with stringent security standards

  • Implement secure data handling processes including encryption, RBAC and audit logging

  • Support clustering, replication and failover strategies to ensure system availability

  • Develop backup, disaster recovery and data retention strategies

Documentation & Collaboration

  • Produce technical documentation covering architecture, workflows and security controls

  • Support knowledge transfer and operational handovers to internal teams

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • Apache NiFi

  • Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data pipelines

  • Background working within secure or regulated environments such as defence, government or finance

  • Strong understanding of:

  • Data ingestion and processing frameworks
  • Real-time and batch processing architectures
  • Data modelling for analytics
  • Distributed system troubleshooting and optimisation
  • Knowledge of:
  • Encryption and secure data handling
  • RBAC and audit controls
  • DevOps and CI/CD principles
  • Git/version control systems

  • Active DV Clearance essential

  • Sole British National essential

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

  • AWS, Azure or GCP within secure environments

  • Docker and Kubernetes

  • Kafka, Spark or additional data engineering technologies

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