Senior Data Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Data Engineer

Location:                     UK, Hybrid

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71406

Shape the Future of Data and AI Across Mission‑Critical Engineering Projects

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Data Engineer at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town and county.

The role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be a key member of our Data Engineering Team within the AI & Data Centre of Excellence. Your work will directly support defence, aerospace and engineering programmes that play a vital role in national security and public safety.

Day-to-day, you’ll shape our data landscape, influence long‑term digital transformation, and grow your technical and leadership skills while supporting projects that make a real difference.

• Lead the design and development of ETL/ELT solutions across the full software development life cycle.
• Collaborate with data engineers, developers, analysts, testers and project teams to deliver high‑quality data products.
• Establish data modelling standards and contribute to best‑practice development across the organisation.
• Support platform administration and help advance modern cloud technologies, including Azure, Microsoft Fabric and Databricks.
• Mentor and guide colleagues, driving continuous improvement in engineering delivery and AI‑ready data capabilities.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Data Engineer

• Extensive experience with the Microsoft SQL Server BI stack (SSIS, SSAS) or equivalent ETL/ELT platforms, plus Python.
• Proven ability to analyse and resolve reporting and data pipeline performance issues.
• Strong experience gathering and documenting high‑quality business requirements and engaging stakeholders.
• Expertise in database design, data warehousing, ODS/DataMart’s, OLAP concepts and dimensional modelling.
• Strong capability in cloud data engineering or readiness to lead cloud adoption using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or Azure Data Lake Storage.

Qualifications for the Senior Data Engineer

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working – supporting better integration of work and personal life
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.  Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 25/02/2026