Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most.

And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

Data Solution Engineer

About Roke

Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI/ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.

The Opportunity

Roke is recruiting for a Data Solution Engineer who is driven by solving varied and interesting client problems and supporting our product development. The candidate will be responsible for supporting the high-level design and implementation of data intensive solutions, and may also support Client Managers directly in a pre-sales capacity to develop relationships and solutions that can support future business growth.

For this specific role, we are seeking someone with strong experience in data solutions, who can design and deliver data pipelines and data platforms for both structured and unstructured data applications.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for supporting the development of capability through development of new and novel solutions using COTS components. This position will be pivotal to capability development through identifying opportunities to develop our own IP in our target proposition space, as well as being able to work with our customers across the full life cycle mix of requirements capture, solution development, system integration and capability operation.

Areas of Responsibility/Tasks

Support Defence customers develop their data solutions in line with their strategy.

Build relevant architectural views of data software and analytics solutions, either as standalone engagements or within a larger multi-disciplinary programme environment.

Communicate the data solutions to non-technical stakeholders and technical experts.

Work within a multi-disciplinary development team and leading on the data solutions, driving technology choices, and delivering early-stage investigations through to large scale implementations.

Represent Roke and its technical solutions and capabilities toward client communities.

Why We Want You

Beyond your technical skills, you will be proactive and able to communicate effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. You will work well alone or as part of a team. You will be curious and seek out the best approach/solution/tool for the job at hand.

Essential skills/experience

Alongside your skills with Data Solution specific technologies, you have a broad technical background which allows you to rapidly get to grips with new systems and domains, and prototype solutions based on your experience and hands-on approach. As a Data Solution Engineer, you will have a degree level qualification in a STEM subject, or you will have an education and level of experience which is comparable.

You will have:
Experience of Designing, Implementing and Integrating Data Solutions in a UK Defence or other Public Sector context.

Experience of building Data Pipelines in a Cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Direct experience with data ingest, transformation and persistence technologies and good understanding of how they combine to build resilient data pipelines.

Good understanding of structured and unstructured data, and the techniques needed to exploit them in different ways, including schemas, ontologies, taxonomies and translation / representation issues.

Experience of using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques, and the quality mechanisms that are required to support them.

Experience of working within an Agile framework.

Desirable skills/experience:
Knowledge of data schemas / exchange specifications in defence.

Secure by design for data at rest and data in the network.

Knowledge of data transport mechanisms in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent and Limited/Low bandwidth (DDIL) environments; and of data solutions in general for compute and storage constrained environments.

Knowledge of wider applications of data for AI / ML solutions.

Scrum-master and/or Product Owner experience.

Knowledge of commercial and contractual frameworks.

Why You Should Join Us

Roke offer a competitive salary and access to a number of additional flexible benefits covering Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection & Life, Leisure and Entertainment.

Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests across a wide range of domains. We are a people-first business, and fostering and developing the talent of our people is core to our continued success. Our approach to knowledge-sharing and interest groups enables people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies & techniques which interest them, supporting fulfilment and professional development.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive and supports a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.

Clearances

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance but you can expect to be put forward for DV clearance to support working with higher classification UK Defence data solutions. As a result, you should have resided in the U.K. for the last 5 years for SC.

The Next Step

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.

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