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Data Engineer – Python | GCP | KAFKA | SC Clearance - £550 OUTSIDE IR35 - Remote
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Data Engineer – Python | GCP | KAFKA | SC Clearance - £550 OUTSIDE IR35 - Remote
I’m looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a greenfield technology programme building a highly scalable data platform supporting advanced AI capabilities and maritime surveillance across the North Atlantic.
You’ll join a highly autonomous engineering team taking an existing proven prototype through to a production-grade platform, ingesting and processing large volumes of complex, real-world data.
💷 Up to £550 per day, Outside IR35
💻 FULLY REMOTE
📈 Initial 6 months - scope for extension / perm
‼️ SC clearance required for this role - UK APPLICANTS ONLY
The role:
- Design and productionise scalable, high-throughput distributed data pipelines
- Onboard and normalise diverse data sources into consistent, queryable schemas
- Build the core data foundations used by AI/ML models and agents
- Develop a knowledge layer allowing AI agents to read and write data with full traceability back to source
- Work with complex IoT, geospatial, time-series and maritime data
- Build secure, high-performance production systems using Python
- Help shape technical and architectural decisions in a genuinely greenfield environment
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What we’re looking for:
- Strong production-level Python
- Experience building distributed data pipelines at scale
- Strong understanding of data modelling, schema design and data lineage/provenance
- Solid software engineering fundamentals
- Experience taking data systems from prototype → production
- SC Clearance or willingness/eligibility to undergo clearance
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Highly desirable experience:
- Kafka / Flink or other streaming technologies
- Spark, Iceberg, Trino and modern lakehouse architectures
- Knowledge graphs / graph databases
- ML/AI platform integration
- Entity resolution / data fusion
- Geospatial or time-series data
- Docker / Kubernetes
- Restricted or air-gapped environments
This is an opportunity to work on a technically challenging, high-priority programme where the data platform will sit directly underneath sophisticated AI and optimisation capabilities.
📩 Interested? Apply or message me directly for more information.
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