Senior Data Engineer for NATO with security clearance
WLG · The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Financial Services · 2-10 employees
About the role
The role involves implementing master data management processes and creating data pipelines to ensure interoperability across federated environments. The engineer will focus on data modelling, design, and maintaining the integrity of mission-critical information for military and civilian stakeholders.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates need a Bachelor's degree in a technical subject with 3 years of experience, or 5 years of progressive experience in lieu of a degree. Strong technical depth in Python, Spark, Kafka, and data governance within secure or defence contexts is required.
Full description
Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization?
The NCI Agency requires a Senior Data Engineer to support enterprise data initiatives within a secure environment. The role focuses on enabling interoperability across federated data environments and ensuring mission-critical information is available, trustworthy, and accessible for both military and civilian stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Data management
- Devises and implements master data management processes for specific subsets of data.
- Assesses the integrity of data from multiple sources.
- Provides advice on the transformation of data from one format/medium to another.
- Maintains and implements information handling procedures.
- Enables the availability, integrity and searchability of information through the application of formal data and metadata structures and protection measures.
Data modelling and design
- Applies standard data modelling and design techniques based upon a detailed understanding of requirements.
- Establishes, modifies and maintains data structures and associated components.
- Communicates the details of data structures and associated components to others using the data structures and associated components.
Data engineering
- Applies data engineering standards and tools to create and maintain data pipelines and extract, transform and load data.
- Carries out routine data quality checks and remediation.
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- The service contractor will be required to have strong technical depth in modern data engineering and platform integration. The principal skill areas required are:
- 1Data engineering, including Python, Spark, Kafka, ETL/ELT pipelines, and automation
- Data modelling, ontology engineering, and semantic interoperability
- Metadata management and data governance
- Data quality frameworks and validation mechanisms
- Data platform integration and build/configuration practices
- Knowledge of federated data environments and, where possible, defence or mission-oriented data-sharing contexts.
The service contractor will be required to have a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a technical subject with substantial Information Technology (IT) content and 3 years post-related experience. As an exception, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that are of interest to the NCI Agency; namely, at least 5 years of extensive and progressive experience in the duties related to the functions of this post.
Desirable:
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
- Knowledge of NATO organization, internal structure and resultant relationships.
If you've read the description and feel this role is a great match, we'd love to hear from you! Click "Apply for this job" to be directed to a brief questionnaire. It should only take a few moments to complete, and we'll be in touch promptly if your experience aligns with our needs.
