The Role
As a Senior Data Fabric Engineer, you will further design, build and operate our secure, open, and extensible data fabric capability for Defence and National Security customers.
Day-to-day, you will create a shared “paved road” that lets teams integrate, govern, and consume data products both safely and quickly across batch, streaming and analyst-driven workflows. This includes enabling workflow automation and configurable data integration with resilient operation in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments supporting edge deployments.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Designing, implementing, and evolving the event-driven data fabric architecture that enables automation and downstream AI-based systems: ingestion, integration, storage, processing, metadata, governance, and access patterns aligned to customer outcomes and security constraints
2. Building and operating workflow automation capabilities that enable repeatable, governed analyst workflows (reusable patterns, configuration-driven behaviours, and safe promotion across environments)
3. Delivering configurable data integration through curated connectors and standard patterns for transformation, routing, enrichment and correlation with clear contract and operational guardrails
4. Engineering for DDIL and edge deployments: Design Patterns for constrained connectivity, supporting appropriate local processing at edge and implementing secure configuration distribution
5. Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, batch/stream processing workloads using both distributed event streaming technologies and Apache Flink and/or Apache Spark with clear SLA’s and repeatable deployment
6. Implementing metadata, lineage and catalogue capabilities and implementing policy-based security and governance
Essential experience of the Senior Data Fabric Engineer:
7. Extensive experience as a data/platform engineer working on distributed systems in production
8. Proven hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies and delivering configurable integration patterns (connectors, reusable components, rules, and orchestration)
9. Previous experience enabling workflow automation for technical users
10. A strong grasp of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts and schema evolution
11. Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability: monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, incident handling, and performance tuning
12. A practical security mindset: least privilege, auditability and designing controls that do not restrict usability
Essential qualifications for the Senior Data Fabric Engineer:
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Farnborough
At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
Our Benefits
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
15. Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
16. Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
17. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
18. Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community
Our Recruitment Process:
We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be willing to go through DV Clearance.