We are the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) of CACI UK, a specialist technical consultancy providing bespoke solutions to solve complex operational problems. Due to some exciting growth within our Critical National Infrastructure business, we are interested in speaking with an experienced Data Engineer/Architect with specialist Snowflake knowledge to join us.
Role Location
You can work from any of our 5 offices in the UK (including Bristol, Plymouth & London) or from home, you decide. The role will require regular trips to Exeter.
About the Role
The successful candidate will be focused on the delivery of high-priority projects where you will be supporting our customers across the full project lifecycle from initiation to conclusion to implement the effective use of Snowflake. Working with a broad range of technical tools, you will be the SME to ensure compliance with data governance, standards and qualify frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
* Architectural Leadership: Serving as the SME for data architecture, guiding strategic decisions and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
* Assessment & Analysis: Conducting evaluations of existing data architecture, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
* Research & Recommendations: Keeping up to date with industry trends and best practices; provide informed recommendations for modernizing and optimizing data platforms.
* Design & Implementation: Develop and maintaining data models, standards, and frameworks to support enterprise data initiatives.
* Collaboration: Partner with engineering, analytics, and business teams to ensure data solutions meet performance, security, and compliance requirements.
* Governance & Standards: Establish and enforce data architecture principles, policies, and documentation.
* Documentation: Ensuring data architecture artefacts are documented and maintained in the enterprise architecture repository.
* Future Technology: Guiding and influencing on both internal and customer-based technology use in areas such as AI and ML.
The Fit
The ideal candidate will have a background of working with industry best practices for data management, software engineering, security, and scalability. Awareness of a wide range of established and emerging technologies, including Data use for AI and ML, and Data for enhancing automation and decision making. We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology, enjoys problem-solving, and has a collaborative mindset.
Additional skills
* Proven experience implementing Snowflake within complex environments
* Expertise in data architecture principles, including relational, NoSQL, and cloud-based solutions.
* Proven ability to assess existing architectures and recommend improvements.
* Familiarity with modern data platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP), data modelling tools, and integration patterns.
* Technical experience across modern data tooling and scripting
Due to the industries we work in, we require the successful candidate to be able to obtain high level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.
Why work for us?
IIG has the culture and feel of a small business, paired with the benefits of our position in a much larger organisation. The Senior DevOps Engineer role is an excellent opportunity, and CACI reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes:
* Flexi-time: 37.5 hour weeks to structure how you want.
* Hybrid working: Work from one of our offices or from home - you choose
* L&D: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials.
* Social: Fantastic culture with monthly social events.
* Future You: Matched pension and health care package.
We offer a great L&D package including 5 days external training, a career coach and guilds to share innovation and learning. We also offer self-directed career progression, that fosters opportunities for success for us and our business.
We take great pride in taking care of our talent, providing a highly dynamic, inclusive and team-led environment where everyone can thrive.
CACI is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will;
* Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on 020 7602 6000 to discuss individual requirements further).
* Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.
Our people are unique, and we encourage and support them to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.
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