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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Roke
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Data as a Services, Data Integration, Data Security, Data Systems, Apache Hadoop, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, Secure Coding, Systems Integration, Data Ingestion, Apache Spark, Data Analytics, Apache Nifi, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=293e2658f2870db8

## About the Role

* Experience with Big Data technologies, such as Apache Hadoop, Spark or Pig
 * AWS
 * Apache NiFi
 * Python or Java

## Description

As a Data Engineer, you'll be actively involved in development of mission critical technical solutions that focus on data services for our National Security customers.
You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.
As our next Data Engineer, you'll be managing and developing data pipelines and analytics that transform raw data into valuable insights for Roke's National Security customers, enabling downstream analytics and reporting. You'll be working with diverse data sources, applying distributed compute techniques to handle large datasets.

You will be responsible for

 * Data pipeline development - Data ingestion and pipeline orchestration design and tooling.
 * Data integration - Integrating and enriching data from various sources, ensuring data consistency and quality.
 * Data analytics - Extracting valuable insights from data to provide customers with actionable intelligence.
 * Data security - Implementing data security measures to protect sensitive information.
 * Data systems - Monitoring for performance issues and making any necessary optimisations/updates.
 * Helping the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories.
 * Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach.
 * Creating code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse.