Job Description
Raytheon UK is looking for a full‑time, permanent Senior Data Engineer to join specialist teams in Manchester, Glasgow or London working fully onsite.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be part of our experienced software development function within a cross‑functional Agile team.
Responsibilities
* Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources.
* Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers.
* Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with the project.
* Contribute to continuous improvement within the team.
* Collaborate with peers on technical direction within the team.
Qualifications
* Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
* Proficiency in Python (PySpark, Pandas, PyArrow).
* Experience with distributed data processing (Apache Spark).
* Experience with Data ETL (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Apache NiFi).
* Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP).
* Experience with messaging/streaming (Kafka, AWS SQS, other cloud queuing native services).
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL storage (HDFS, Iceberg, Elastic, S3, Data Lake).
* Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
* Experience with testing frameworks and best practices.
* Experience with code repositories and familiarity with branching strategies, pull requests, and merge processes.
We appreciate that you may not be an expert in every area above – training and development will be available.
Benefits & Work Culture
* Contributory pension scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
* Life Assurance (six‑times salary with pension).
* 25 days holiday (increasing with service) plus statutory public holidays, and the opportunity to buy and sell up to five days.
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
* Flexible benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options, including Health Cashplan, dental, and Cycle to Work.
* Enhanced sick pay.
* Enhanced family‑friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
* 37‑hour working week.
* Early 1.30pm finish on Friday.
* Up to five paid days volunteering each year.
* Flexible working culture focused on output – formal flexible arrangements on request.
Additional Information
Location: Manchester, Lancashire. Must hold an eDV clearance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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