Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.
In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.
A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. Due to the nature of the project it is also required you hold a British Citizenship or Dual Citizenship.
As a Data Engineer, you will work on solutions that securely acquire, process and present data for our clients.
This involves:
- Codes, tests, and documents new or modified data pipelines that meet functional / non- functional business requirements.
- Refines logical and physical database design.
- Expands and grows data platform capabilities to solve new data and analytics problems.
- Conducts data analysis, identifying feasible solutions and enhancements to data processing challenges.
- Ensures that data models are consistent with the data architecture (e.g. entity names, relationships, and definitions).
- Performs root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
Core Competencies
The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in the following criteria:
- Data pipeline development using data processing technologies and frameworks.
- Experience with Scala and Spark.
- Implement data models and solutions that meets the intended solution/requirements.
- Open interaction with team members for a clear and collaborative working environment and to ensure assessed solution provides its intended benefits, including challenging team members in relation to use & refinement of data models.
- Agile or other rapid application development methods.
- Strong SQL development skill level, sufficient to implement data models successfully.
- Data modelling and understanding of different data structures and their benefits and limitations under particular use cases
- Experience in AWS including practical experience with core services such as EC2, RDS, Lambda, Athena & Glue.
- Programming or scripting languages, such as Python.
- Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks.
- Experience in system integration environments, source code control workflows.
- Use of macOS (including Terminal) to execute commands.
Aker Systems Attributes
At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.
In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), Company Paid Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4x times basic salary), Pension scheme, Perks at Work, Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme and Season Ticket Loan. Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover and Virtual GP.
Equal Opportunities
Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.
What We Do
We move highly sensitive data into the public cloud. Our products enable the transformation of systems into ultra-secure, scalable and powerful cloud based environments. We build and manage enterprise scale data infrastructures which deliver data securely, at speed wherever it is required.
