Candidate Requirements:

You should have hands-on experience designing, creating, building and operating complex software systems, good verbal and written communication skills, be able to work with autonomy but also work well within a team. The role involves assessing and integrating new and emerging technologies, so a proactive and inquisitive mindset is welcomed.

The following core skills are required for the role -

• Proven experience designing and implementing data pipelines leveraging technologies such as Spark, Kafka, SQS etc.
• Ability to write production level Python or Scala
• Experience with databases and SQL.

Additional desirable skills/experience includes:

• Experience with ETL pipelines
• Good understanding of AWS or Azure data services
• Experience in DevOps and code deployment using CI/CD best practices.

Note that Raytheon anticipate that this is a demanding skillset and therefore are flexible regarding the overall skills match. Where necessary training will be provided to the right candidate to ensure that any skills gaps are addressed.

Broader Experience

Raytheon UK welcomes individuals with a broad range of experiences, diverse careers and technical qualifications.  Such diversity of thought is an asset, and as such, broad career experience is valuable. Examples of relevant experience or qualifications are:

• Professional data science certifications (eg Cloudera Data Scientist) or other technologies.

• Experience working in the Defence and National Security domain, in particular direct experience working with UK Government customers.

• Evidence of proactive self-development and self-directed learning such as Cloud certification