Consultant - Manager, Data Engineer, AI & Data, Defence & Security - Deloitte

Basic information

Location

Bristol, London, Manchester

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

31-Jul-2026

Req #

24458

Job description

Connect to your opportunity

• Role: Data Engineer
• Roles available at multiple seniority levels – suitable for applicants with 3-10 years’ experience
• Base Office Location: Bristol, London or Manchester
• Mandatory Requirement: Active UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

We are seeking talented data engineers to join our multidisciplinary Engineering, AI and Data team, with a focus on clients in the Defence and Security sector.

As a data engineer, you will help clients turn complex, high-volume and sensitive data into trusted, governed and reusable information assets. You will design and build the data pipelines, platforms and products that enable analytics, AI, reporting and operational decision-making.

You will work in multidisciplinary teams across a range of client engagements, often in complex and secure environments. Your role may span discovery, architecture, engineering, delivery and ongoing improvement, depending on the needs of the project and your individual skillset.

As a practitioner in our team, you will:

• Design, build and maintain high-quality data pipelines, data stores and data products.
• Ingest, transform, enrich and integrate data from diverse sources, including structured, semi-structured, streaming and unstructured data.
• Create trusted, standardised and reusable data assets for downstream use cases such as analytics, AI, reporting and operational services.
• Work with engineers, data scientists, analysts, architects and client stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions.
• Apply engineering good practice, including version control, testing, automation, CI/CD and documentation.
• Help design data architectures that are secure, reliable, scalable and maintainable.
• Support data governance, including metadata, data quality, lineage, access control and appropriate handling of sensitive data.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise data systems for performance, reliability and operational use.
• Bring innovation and practical problem-solving to complex data engineering challenges.
• Contribute to client delivery, stakeholder relationships, practice development and future propositions.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

All applicants must hold active UK Developed Vetting clearance.

We are looking for candidates who combine strong hands-on data engineering capability with the ability to communicate clearly, work collaboratively and explain the value of their work to clients.

Essential skills and experience