Senior Data Engineer
Summary
Senior Data Engineer at Raytheon UK's National Security Cyber business, building and maintaining data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data for analytical use. The stack centers on Python (PySpark, Pandas), Spark, Airflow and cloud ETL tooling; active eDV security clearance is required, working onsite in the UK.
Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements:- Active eDV clearance is required for this role.
- Experience working in an Agile delivery team.
- Strong analytical skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Python experience, including PySpark, Pandas, and PyArrow.
- Experience with distributed data processing, including Apache Spark.
- Experience with data ETL tools and workflows such as Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, or Apache NiFi.
- Experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS, or other cloud queuing native services.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL storage technologies such as HDFS, Iceberg, Elastic, S3, or Data Lake.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Experience with testing frameworks and best practices.
- Experience using code repositories, including branching strategies, pull requests, and merge processes.
- Build and maintain data processing pipelines.
- Transform and optimise data for analytical use.
- Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers.
- Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with projects.
- Contribute to continuous improvement within the team.
- Collaborate with peers on technical direction within the team.
- Airflow
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- Docker
- ETL
- GCP
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- NoSQL
- OpenShift
- Python
- PySpark
- SQL
- Security
- Spark
- pandas
- Support
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We are Raytheon UK, a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom. Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You will join our experienced Software Engineering function in a cross-functional Agile team based in London, working onsite in a mature agile environment. We offer a competitive salary, contributory pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days holiday plus public holidays, a company bonus scheme, flexible benefits, enhanced sick pay, enhanced family-friendly policies, a 37-hour working week, early Friday finish, volunteering days, and flexible remote, hybrid, or site-based working opportunities depending on the role.
last updated 39 week of 2026