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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £195,000.0 - £208,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Linux, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Azure Active Directory, Build Management, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Apache Nifi, Data Pipelines, OpenSearch
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-C5705562B55004D017/

## About the Role

* Strong Python and a track record of building data pipelines and data products
 * Hands-on experience with open-source data engineering tools
 * Linux, CI/CD, containers and Kubernetes
 * Experience in defence, national security or intelligence, and fluency in how that world works
 * Calm judgement under pressure, with firm deadlines and changing priorities
 * Clear, concise writing and speaking

## Description

Build data products that make a real operational difference. A leading GovTech partner to the MOD wants a DV-cleared Data Engineer to design and build open-source data pipelines for a UK defence customer.

What you'll do

 * Design and ship new data products from scratch, often against tight, shifting timelines
 * Build and improve data pipelines, mostly with open-source tools
 * Deploy using containers, Kubernetes and CI/CD on Linux, inside an Azure Stack Hub environment
 * Catalogue and organise data so people can find it and trust it
 * Try out emerging tools, including pipeline orchestration and graph databases
 * Explain what you built, why, and how it works, to technical and non-technical colleagues
 * Work alongside data architecture, governance and data quality specialists, * Apache Airflow, Kafka or NiFi
 * OpenSearch
 * Azure or Azure Stack Hub
 * Data catalogue tools or graph databases

Why you'll want this

 * Your work matters: the data products you build feed real operational decisions
 * Greenfield builds on a modern open-source stack, with room to learn new tech
 * Join a team trusted across the MOD, including Army HQ, DE&S and Defence Digital