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As we continue to grow our MOD delivery capability, we are interested in speaking with experienced Data Engineers who have worked within Defence environments and understand the complexities of delivering secure, mission-critical solutions for MOD customers. \n\nRole Location:\n\nThe role will involve working on customer site 2-3 days per week in Blandford.\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nAs a Data Engineer at CACI IIG, you join a community of dedicated engineers who deliver cutting edge solutions for our public sector customers across Central Government, Defence, National Security and Critical National Infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with our clients to design and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines that guarantee data availability, accuracy, and performance for analytics and operational decision-making. In addition, you’ll help shape the data engineering roadmap by driving research, defining technical strategy, aligning with business priorities, and influencing key decisions.\n\nThis role will be focussed on the delivery of high priority projects where you will be supporting our customers across the full project lifecycle from initiation to conclusion. Working with a broad range of technical tools, you will be support with compliance to data governance, standards and qualify frameworks.\n\nKey Responsibilities will Include:\nInterpret and validate data requirements, gather and analyse large-scale structured datasets, and perform profiling within data environments to ensure accuracy and completeness.\nDesign and implement ETL frameworks to ingest, transform, validate, normalize, and cleanse data, ensuring it meets business and technical needs.\nApply data quality controls and prepare datasets for visualisation, implementing data models and manage storage solutions like Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, BigQuery, and Snowflake.\nSupport the development of data management standards and policies, including techniques for data synthesis and anonymisation to maintain compliance and security.\nDevelop robust data models to support analytics and reporting within secure environments.\nDelivering performance optimisation through the monitoring and tuning of data workflows for speed, cost efficiency, and reliability.\nEstablish and refine best practices in data engineering, while contributing to advanced analytics and visualization strategies through research, evaluation of emerging technologies, and presentation of findings to stakeholders.\n\nThe Fit:\n\nThe ideal candidate will have a background of working with industry best practices for data management, security, scalability, and awareness of Data Standards, Interoperability, Data Governance, and Data Sharing across security domains. We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology, enjoys problem-solving, and has a collaborative mindset.\n\nAdditional skills include:\nProven experience as a Data Engineer within complex environments.\nStrong knowledge of data management principles, including data modelling, integration, and governance.\nAbility to assess existing data management systems and recommend improvements.\nExperience working with Snowflake and Databricks - Essential \nFamiliarity with modern data architectures (e.g., cloud-based, distributed systems).\nProficiency in SQL, Python, and data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Spark).\nExperience with cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) and big data technologies.\nAwareness and evidence of Data Analytics and Visualisation.\n\nDue to the industries we work in, we require the successful candidate to be able to obtain high level security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.\n\nWhy work for us?\n\nIIG has the culture and feel of a small business, paired with the benefits of our position in a much larger organisation. The Data Engineer role is an excellent opportunity, and CACI reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes:\nFlexi-time: 37.5 hour weeks to structure how you want.\nHybrid working: Work from one of our offices or from home - you choose\nL&D: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials.\nSocial: Fantastic culture with monthly social events.\nFuture You: Matched pension and health care package.\n\nAs a Data Engineer, career development and ongoing training is a key part of your growth. 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