Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Bristol

6-month contract

Paying up to £80p/h (Outside IR35)

*** Please note that due to the nature of the work you must be hold or be eligible to obtain DV level security clearance ***

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable data pipelines using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Apache NiFi.
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, and integration processes, ensuring data quality and security.
• Collaborate with data architects and security teams to ensure compliance with security policies and data governance standards.
• Manage and monitor large-scale data flows in real-time, ensuring system performance, reliability, and data integrity.
• Develop robust data models to support analytics and reporting within secure environments.
• Perform troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning of data pipelines and the Elastic Stack.
• Build dashboards and visualizations in Kibana to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery for data systems, implementing appropriate backup and replication strategies.
• Document data architecture, workflows, and security protocols to ensure smooth operational handover and audit readiness.

Experience required:

• Experience working as a Data Engineer in secure or regulated environments.
• Expertise in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for data ingestion, transformation, indexing, and visualization.
• Strong experience with Apache NiFi for building and managing complex data flows and integration processes.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK for data infrastructure
• Knowledge of security practices for handling sensitive data, including encryption, anonymization, and access control.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality management, and compliance standards in secure environments.
• Experience in managing large-scale, real-time data pipelines and ensuring their performance and reliability.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.