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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Raytheon
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Distributed Computing Environment, Hadoop Distributed File System, Python (Programming Language), Microsoft Message Queuing, NoSQL, OpenShift, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Unstructured Data, Apache Spark, Pandas, Containerization, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Apache Nifi, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815455683-data-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
 * Python (PySpark, Pandas, PyArrow)
 * Distributed data processing (Apache Spark)
 * Data ETL (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Apache NiFi)
 * Cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)
 * Messaging / Streaming (Kafka, AWS SQS, Other Cloud Queuing Native services)
 * SQL and NoSQL databases and storage (HDFS, Iceberg, Elastic, S3, Data Lake)
 * Containerisation and orchestration (Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift)
 * Testing frameworks and best practices

## Description

* Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources
 * Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers
 * Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project
 * Contribute to continuous improvement within your team
 * Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team


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