LOCATION(S): UK, EUROPE & AFRICA : UK : LONDON

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.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 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, including client colleagues, other consultants, and partnering organisations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to broad array of stakeholders of varying technical understanding and seniority, with appropriate tailoring.
• Adaptable with strong ability to pick up new domain specific knowledge and understand the context of a project.
• Commercial experience with Python, Scala, Java, or similar language.
• Experience with some of: Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, NiFi, Bash, GraphQL, HBase.
• Building and deploying data pipelines into production.
• Software engineering concepts and best practices.
• Experience of Agile software development

The Consultant Data Engineers are capable and skilled at engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicating complex technical information in an accessible and clear way. Consultants should be comfortable presenting to broader communities, engaging with scoping and requirements elicitation activities, identifying client pain points, and supporting business development efforts.

• 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 be able to communicate complex technical concepts to broad array of stakeholders of varying technical understanding and seniority in a clear and accessible way.
• Flexibility in travelling to client sites

The Consultant Data Engineer specialises in helping clients within large scale projects and programmes to help deliver specific solutions. They apply software engineering rigour and best practice and bring detailed technology expertise to bear on client programmes.

The Consultant Data Engineers are capable and skilled at engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicating complex technical information in an accessible and clear way. Consultants should be comfortable presenting to broader communities, engaging with scoping and requirements elicitation activities, identifying client pain points, and supporting business development efforts.

• 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 be able to communicate complex technical concepts to broad array of stakeholders of varying technical understanding and seniority in a clear and accessible way.
• Flexibility in travelling to client sites.