Data Engineer

⭐ - Featured Role | Apply direct with Data Freelance Hub
This role is for a Data Engineer / Back End Developer on a contract basis, focusing on the defence and security sector. Required skills include Spring Boot, Java, and experience with React/VueJS/AngularJS. Contract length and pay rate are unspecified.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
🗓️ - Date discovered
April 4, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
📄 - Contract type
Unknown
🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
📍 - Location detailed
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
🧠 - Skills detailed
#Java #REST (Representational State Transfer) #React #Scrum #Data Engineering #Linux #Stories #Prometheus #Agile #Docker #Kubernetes #Angular #Spring Boot #API (Application Programming Interface) #Grafana #Debugging #Apache NiFi #Ansible #REST API #NiFi (Apache NiFi) #GitLab #Security
Role description

Our client, a prominent agency in the Defence and Security sector, is currently seeking a skilled Data Engineer / Back End Developer for a contract position. This role is ideal for someone who excels in both data engineering and IT backend development, particularly within the defence and security context.

Key Responsibilities:

   • Providing direction within the scrum team

   • Liaising with the engineering lead

   • Helping the scrum team decompose user requests and key results into epics and stories

   • Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach

   • Creating code that is open by default and easily reusable

   • Translating logical designs into physical designs and producing detailed designs

   • Effectively documenting all work using required standards, methods, and tools

   • Working with both well-established and emerging technologies to identify appropriate patterns

   • Integrating API/UI components with existing data stores and APIs

   • Maintaining and developing existing architectural components, including Data Ingest, Data Stores, and REST APIs

   • Participating in sprint ceremonies with the agile team, attending daily stand-ups, epic decomposition, demos, and planning sessions

   • Assisting the wider team to understand upcoming API features and their impact

   • Collaborating with user researchers and representing users internally

   • Explaining the difference between user needs and the desires of the user

Job Requirements:

   • Experience in data engineering and backend development within the defence and security sector

   • Technical proficiency in:

   • Spring Boot

   • Java Enterprise development

   • React / VueJS / AngularJS

   • Apache Nifi

   • Flink

   • Desired technical skills (at least 3 of the following):

   • Ansible

   • Docker

   • Kubernetes

   • Grafana / Prometheus

   • Linux Sys Admin for deployed Clusters (10's of servers)

   • Gitlab Pipeline development

   • Integration / debugging

   • Understanding complex system architectures

   • Technologically curious / Willing / Able to tactically upskill new technologies

   • Network Analysis, or network domain knowledge

If you are a proficient Data Engineer / Back End Developer with a keen understanding of the defence and security sector, we would like to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dedicated team and contribute to critical projects.