Associate Data Fabric Engineer
// Role Summary
Join QinetiQ as an Associate Data Fabric Engineer in Farnborough to design, build, and operate a secure, open, and extensible data fabric for Defence and National Security customers, working with cutting-edge technology.
// Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate a secure data fabric capability.
- Enable secure and rapid data integration across batch, streaming, and analyst workflows.
- Support workflow automation and configurable data integration for edge deployments.
- Engineer for Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) communications environments.
- Utilize distributed event streaming, Apache Flink, and/or Apache Spark.
- A practical security mindset is essential, with a focus on least privilege and auditability.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As an Associate Data Fabric Engineer at QinetiQ's Farnborough site, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and operating our secure, open, and extensible data fabric capability for Defence and National Security customers. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology alongside brilliant minds.
Your primary responsibility will be to create a shared "paved road" that allows teams to integrate, govern, and consume data products safely and efficiently 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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing, implementing, and evolving the event-driven data fabric architecture to enable automation and downstream AI-based systems, including ingestion, integration, storage, processing, metadata, governance, and access patterns aligned with customer outcomes and security constraints.
- Supporting the building and operation of workflow automation capabilities that enable repeatable, governed analyst workflows through reusable patterns, configuration-driven behaviours, and safe promotion across environments.
- Delivering configurable data integration through curated connectors and standard patterns for transformation, routing, enrichment, and correlation, with clear contract and operational guardrails.
- Engineering for DDIL and edge deployments, including designing patterns for constrained connectivity, supporting appropriate local processing at the edge, and implementing secure configuration distribution.
- Building streaming ingestion, event pipelines, and batch/stream processing workloads using distributed event streaming technologies and Apache Flink and/or Apache Spark, with clear SLAs and repeatable deployment.
- Implementing metadata, lineage, and catalogue capabilities, along with policy-based security and governance.
Essential Experience:
- Previous experience as a data or platform engineer working on distributed systems in a production environment.
- Proven hands-on experience with open-source data integration and streaming technologies, and delivering configurable integration patterns (connectors, reusable components, rules, and orchestration).
- Previous experience enabling workflow automation for technical users.
- A strong grasp of data modelling fundamentals, data contracts, and schema evolution.
- Experience designing for reliability, scalability, and operability, including monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, incident handling, and performance tuning.
- A practical security mindset, focusing on least privilege, auditability, and designing controls that do not restrict usability.
Qualifications:
QinetiQ values difference and does not have a fixed idea regarding background or education. If you can demonstrate the required level of experience and a willingness to learn, we encourage you to apply.
About the Role and Location:
This role is based at our Farnborough site, working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Farnborough is a hub of creativity, research, and innovation, featuring state-of-the-art facilities for high-energy laser technologies, a unique 5m pressurised wind tunnel in the UK, and large research and development projects. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, and Group Functions to contribute to future defence capabilities in the UK.
Why Join QinetiQ?
QinetiQ offers an exciting working environment where innovation and tackling complex challenges are key. You’ll collaborate widely and openly with diverse teams, blending disciplines and technologies to solve complex problems in an inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued, and realize your full potential.
Benefits:
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance.
- Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
- Options to join a Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance.
- Employee discount portal offering savings on Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, restaurants, cinema tickets, and more.
- Support for the Armed Forces community, honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
- Volunteering opportunities to help charities and the local community.
Recruitment Process:
QinetiQ is committed to an inclusive recruitment process where everyone feels valued, 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 at QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it. Some roles may have additional restrictions related to nationality or previous nationalities.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be willing to undergo DV Clearance.