Data Consultant
Location: London (UK) – Hybrid & flexible working arrangements available.
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Grade: GG11‑GG12 • Referral Bonus: £5,000
What You’ll Be Doing – The Consultant Data Engineer specialises in helping clients within large‑scale projects and programmes to deliver specific solutions. They apply software engineering rigor, best practice, and detailed technology expertise to client programmes. They focus on data technologies, design, build, and test data solutions, and communicate complex technical information in an accessible and clear way.
Key Responsibilities
* Partner with client stakeholders to understand their needs and build meaningful data solutions.
* Design and build data solutions by writing clean, maintainable, and robust code in accordance with development best practices across the full software development lifecycle.
* Work as a member of an agile development team and contribute to cross‑functional problem‑solving discussions.
* Creatively exploit a wide range of methods, languages, libraries, tools, and techniques to solve complex client data problems.
* Be a technical SME for our data solutions and communicate complex technical concepts to a broad array of stakeholders of varying technical understanding and seniority.
* Flexibility in travelling to client sites.
What We Are Looking For
* Ability to write clean, maintainable, and robust code.
* Software engineering best practices and good development hygiene.
* Big data technologies.
* Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
* Team player, able to work well with colleagues of all backgrounds and seniorities.
* Strong communication skills, presenting complex technical concepts to a broad array of stakeholders with appropriate tailoring.
* Adaptable, able to pick up new domain‑specific knowledge.
* Experience with Python, Scala, Java, or similar language.
* Experience with Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, NiFi, Bash, GraphQL, HBase.
* Building and deploying data pipelines into production.
* Software engineering concepts and best practices.
* Agile software development.
* Common development tools (Git, Atlassian suite, etc.).
* Containerising applications.
* Defining and developing APIs.
* Continuous integration/development processes.
* Ingesting, storing and exposing image and/or video data.
* Network experience.
* DevOps experience.
Benefits
Competitive pension scheme, employee share plan, flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts. Eligibility for an annual incentive may apply.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, particularly under‑represented groups, and value diversity, integrity and merit. All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard; higher levels of National Security Vetting may be required.
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