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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Frontier Resourcing Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Software Engineering, Unstructured Data, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Event Driven Architecture, Pyspark, Kubernetes, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/data-engineer/frontier-resourcing-ltd-job108070022

## About the Role

* Experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering or a closely related technical discipline
 * Strong programming capability, ideally Python
 * Experience with data processing, transformation or pipeline development
 * Knowledge of SQL and data modelling
 * Strong problem-solving and engineering fundamentals
 * An ability and willingness to learn new technologies
 * Someone who enjoys working within a small, collaborative and hands-on engineering environment
 * Ambition to develop technically and progress as the business grows
 * Current SC or DV clearance
 * Ability to work 5 days onsite in Central London

Desirable experience

 * Experience with PySpark / Apache Spark, AWS, ETL/data pipelines, batch or streaming architectures, Kubernetes/containerised environments, AI/ML,
 * Previous work within Defence, Government or National Security environments would be beneficial.
 * You don't need experience across all of these areas. Technical aptitude, curiosity and the ability to learn are equally important.

## Description

We're supporting an fast-growing engineering SME that is expanding its presence across the UK National Security space and looking to build out its Data Engineering capability in London.

A major part of this opportunity is the chance to progress your existing SC or DV clearance to enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

Alongside this, you'll be joining a business at an exciting point in its growth. The team is still relatively small, meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact, develop your technical skills and progress as the company expands.

They're looking for technically capable, curious engineers rather than people who simply tick every box on a job description. If you have strong engineering fundamentals, enjoy solving difficult problems and want to continue developing your career within National Security, they're keen to speak.

What you'll be doing

 * Designing and building scalable data pipelines and platforms
 * Ingesting, transforming and processing complex structured and unstructured datasets
 * Developing data solutions supporting analytics, AI and machine learning
 * Working with technologies including Python, PySpark, Spark and SQL
 * Working across modern cloud and data engineering environments
 * Collaborating closely with Software, Data and Platform Engineers
 * Improving data quality, reliability, scalability and performance
 * Contributing to technical design and architecture decisions
 * Working across greenfield and evolving National Security programmes
 * Taking on greater technical responsibility as the team grows, The business is offering successful candidates a route from SC/DV into enhanced DV, supporting you through training and progression towards your career in engineering,and enabling you to work within some of the UK's most sensitive National Security environments.
 * Gain enhanced DV (eDV) clearance
 * Access highly sensitive National Security programmes
 * Progress your career as the business and engineering team expand
 * Receive ongoing training and technical development
 * Work across modern Data, AI and Machine Learning technologies
 * Take on increasing levels of responsibility and influence
 * Work closely with senior engineers and leadership
 * Help shape the technical capability of a growing business