Data Engineering Specialist in United Kingdom

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting  

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2026-0140 

  Role Background  

SHAPE and the NCIA are jointly delivering the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space Programme. This programme serves NATO and the nations and presents an opportunity to enhance and accelerate situational awareness and decision making through a dedicated programme for the access to shared space data and the integration of the data into NATO systems. Through pioneering the ability of the Alliance to harness space capabilities and deliver operational effect from the Space Domain, this proposal will deliver a step change in the Alliance ability to remain informed through access to Space data.  

  Role Duties and Responsibilities   

• Under the direction of NCIA, the required service will provide deliverables which include the following:  

• ETL1 Development: Designing and implementing extraction, transformation, and loading processes to connect various data sources on different networks and domains.  

• Data Modelling & Pipelines: Developing data pipelines, transformation mappings, and data schemas to enable data centricity, and ensure data consistency and accuracy across platforms.  

• System Troubleshooting: Investigating and resolving data flow bottlenecks and technical issues in production environments.  

• Collaboration & Documentation: Working with cross-functional teams to define requirements and maintaining documentation for code changes and ETL processes.  

  Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications  

• The support for this service requires following qualifications:  

• 1-3+ years proficiency in implementing data integration patterns with modern ETL tools (e.g., Apache NIFI, Informatica, Talend, SSIS), especially in the context of cloud services (AWS, Azure) 

• 1-3+ years practical experience in data modelling and transformation to ingest and integrate data from heterogeneous data sources and systems.  

• 1-3+ years experience with data sharing platforms, object stores, and various types of databases, (Relational, NoSQL, Graph, Object, Vector).  

• Comfortable using command line interfaces in linux.  

• 1-3+ years experience demonstrating strong problem-solving skills to identify, evaluate, and fix data anomalies.  

• 1-3+ years experience demonstrating ability to deliver results in a fixed, deliverable-based contract model.  

• 1-3+ years experience demonstrating ability to integrate and work in a multinational team.  

• 1-3+ years experience of NATO and JISR architecture and applications.  

• Generally 1-3+ years of experience in data management, software engineering, or related fields.  

• Fluent in Business English  

  Working Location  

• The Hague, The Netherlands  

  Working Policy  

• On-site  

Travel  

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required  

  Security Clearance  

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance