Data Engineer

Leidos, Inc.
UK
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£61,500.0 - £78,800.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Computing Platforms Microsoft Azure Software as a Service Cloud Database Data as a Services Information Engineering Data Governance Data Integration Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Transformation Data Migration
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Data Security Dataspaces Document-Oriented Databases Python (Programming Language) Metadata Operational Databases Reference Data SQL Databases Transaction Data Azure Data Factory Microsoft Fabric AWS Glue AWS Data Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics Data Pipelines Databricks

Job description

Design, build and operate trusted data pipelines and data services for ESCS reporting, integration, migration and analytics. The Data Engineer ensures that data is reliable, governed, secure and available to authorised users and services when needed.

The role you will play:

  • Create scalable data pipelines and models across ESCS source and target platforms.
  • Build data quality, lineage, security and operational monitoring into delivery.
  • Support migration, reporting and decision-making with reliable data engineering., * Design and implement ingestion, transformation, validation and publishing pipelines.
  • Develop data models and contribute to warehouse, lakehouse or platform design.
  • Implement data quality controls, reconciliation, lineage and metadata.
  • Support master and reference data management approaches.
  • Engineer secure access, retention and protection controls with relevant specialists.
  • Plan and execute data migration, cleansing and cutover activities.
  • Monitor pipeline reliability, performance and cost and resolve operational issues.
  • Document data flows, mappings, rules, interfaces and support procedures.

Requirements

  • SQL and data transformation
  • Python or equivalent data engineering language
  • ETL/ELT pipeline design and orchestration
  • Data modelling and warehousing/lakehouse concepts
  • Data quality, reconciliation and observability
  • Data governance, catalogue, metadata and lineage
  • Master and reference data management awareness
  • Data security and access control
  • Data migration and mapping
  • Cloud data services on Azure and/or AWS

Required experience:

  • Development and support of production data pipelines.
  • Experience with structured data, integration patterns and data modelling.
  • Experience implementing data quality and operational monitoring.
  • Experience collaborating with analysts, architects, developers and business stakeholders.

Desired experience:

  • AWS Data Services, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks
  • Power BI data ecosystems.
  • Enterprise SaaS data integration and migration.
  • Procurement, supply chain or transactional data.

Benefits & conditions

Clearance requirements:

  • SC required to start
  • SC required for the role

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction…

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

  • Contributory Pension Scheme

  • Private Medical Insurance

  • 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)

  • Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

  • Flexible Working Scheme, Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits .

About the company

Leidos UK & EUROPE (http://www.leidos.com/company/global/uk-europe) - we work to make the worldsafer,healthier, andmore efficient through technology, engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing . We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares., Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .

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