Data Consultant

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
London
2 days ago
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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.


Job Title:Data Consultant


Location:London - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role


Grade:GG11


Referral Bonus:£5000


What youll be doing:


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.


  1. Partner with client stakeholders to understand their needs and build meaningful data solutions.
  2. Design and build data solutions by writing clean, maintainable, and robust code in accordance with development best practices across the full software development lifecycle.
  3. Work as a member of an agile development team and contribute to cross-functional problem solving discussions.
  4. Creatively exploit a wide range of methods, languages, libraries, tools, and techniques to solve complex client data problems.
  5. 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.
  6. Flexibility in travelling to client sites.


Skills & Experience


  1. Ability to write clean, maintainable, and robust code.
  2. Software engineering best practices and good development hygiene.
  3. Big data technologies.
  4. Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
  5. Team player, able to work well with colleagues of all backgrounds and seniorities, including client colleagues, other consultants, and partnering organisations.
  6. 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.
  7. Adaptable with strong ability to pick up new domain specific knowledge and understand the context of a project.
  8. Commercial experience with Python, Scala, Java, or similar language.
  9. Experience with some of: Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, NiFi, Bash, GraphQL, HBase.
  10. Building and deploying data pipelines into production.
  11. Software engineering concepts and best practices.
  12. Experience of Agile software development.


Benefits


As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.


Why BAE Systems?


This is a place where youll be able to make a real difference. Youll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where youll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.


We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.


Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able to perform within the organisation.


All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.


Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence


We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.


By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when were working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.


Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

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