Data Platform Engineer

Job Title:                     Data Platform Engineer

Location:                     UK, Hybrid

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71400

Shape the Future of Data Innovation in Defence and Engineering

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

The role

As a Data Platform Engineer, you’ll help power the digital backbone of an organisation that delivers critical capability across defence, aerospace and engineering. This is a role where your expertise will directly contribute to national security, public infrastructure and the technologies that keep people and systems safe.

Day-to-day, you’ll be building, maintaining, and optimising the infrastructure that enables our teams to access trusted data driving decision‑making, innovation, and future‑ready solutions.

• Administer and maintain Windows and Linux servers that host our on‑premise data platforms.
• Support and optimise infrastructure for data lakes, data warehouses and analytics environments.
• Configure and manage Microsoft Fabric components to enhance data integration, governance and observability.
• Administer Azure AI services used across analytics and automation workloads.
• Monitor platform health and performance, implementing improvements and automation where possible.

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

Essential experience of the Data Platform Engineer

• Proven expertise in Azure services, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse and Azure AI.
• Familiarity with data platform architectures such as data lakes, data warehouses and marketplaces.
• Experience using monitoring tools and automation frameworks.
• Understanding of networking, storage and security principles across hybrid environments.

Desirable:

• Strong experience with Windows and Linux server administration.

Qualifications for the Data Platform 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.  Must be British Nationals / Passport Holders.

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 

• 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 options
• 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: 24/02/2026