Senior Data Platform Engineer, NCC Group
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Leading cyber security & managed services
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Leading cyber security & managed services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help keep customers safe and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in data engineering within AWS cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with AWS big data technologies such as EMR, S3 and SageMaker
- Proficiency in Python for building scalable data pipelines and processing frameworks. Experience with Apache Spark for distributed data processing
- Experience designing and maintaining scalable batch and real-time data pipelines
- Solid understanding of ETL/ELT design patterns and data modelling techniques
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow (ideally deployed on AWS)
- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD/GitOps practices
- Proven ability to optimise performance and reduce cloud costs through partitioning, clustering and workload management
- Understanding of data security principles, including data loss prevention (DLP)
Desirable
- Experience with Databricks or similar third-party big data platforms
- Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis)
- Experience implementing data governance and compliance frameworks
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools in AWS environments
- Exposure to Lakehouse or modern data platform architectures
What the job involves
- We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our Engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and optimising scalable data pipelines that power advanced analytics and machine learning solutions
- You will play a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making by delivering high-quality, reliable datasets to tools such as Amazon SageMaker and other analytics platforms
- We are looking for a Data Engineer to work closely with the Data Science team to develop robust data pipelines that feed analytics and machine learning tools such as Amazon SageMaker and third-party platforms like Databricks
- You will leverage AWS technologies such as EMR, S3, EKS and Airflow to process and orchestrate high-volume datasets, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient and cost-efficient
- You will also play a key role in embedding data loss prevention (DLP) principles and controls into data pipelines to protect sensitive information, while ensuring data is reliable, accessible, well-governed and optimised for downstream consumption
Application process
- We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles
- Screening call with your Talent Acquisition Team
- First Stage Call
- Second Stage Call
- Offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
NCC Group is a global cyber and software resilience businesses that assesses, develops and manages cyber threats. The company operates across multiple sectors, geographies and technologies but with the universal mission of communicating the best ways to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.
As we become more entrenched in the digital age, businesses are more vulnerable to cyber-related risk, and this is where NCC Group comes in. Its services work to make the Internet safer and to change the way that organisations think about cyber security. It continues to build momentum as our society becomes increasingly connected but more uncertain.
NCC Group's role is only set to grow too. As technology evolves and cyber threats become more sophisticated, businesses and individuals will need trusted partners to navigate the risks. NCC Group's expertise, global reach, and proactive approach puts it in a position to help organisations not only respond to threats, but to stay ahead of them.
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Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Spinningfields, Manchester, UK
Leadership
Mike Maddison
(Group CEO)Former head of EY’s cyber security, privacy, and trusted technology practice for EMEA. Previously led PwC’s Risk Services practice across the Middle East and before that was head of Deloitte’s cyber security consultancy in EMEA.
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