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Principal Data Engineer
Job details
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Staff / principal
- Posted
- Sep 24, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Nov 6, 2026
What you'll need to apply
Fields this application requires
Company-specific questions
- Are you currently an employee of Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, or Raytheon Technologies Corporate Offices?
- Did you previously work for Raytheon Technologies (including its predecessors or any of its businesses) in any capacity?
- Are you subject to any legal or regulatory employment restrictions, such as a non-compete agreement?
- Are you a CURRENT U.S. federal government employee?
- Are you a FORMER U.S. federal government employee, or a CURRENT government official of any government and serving as: (1) An elected official; (2) A party official, politician, or political appointee; (3) A judicial or law enforcement officer; (4) Working in a regulatory entity; (5) An inspector or auditor; or (6) Responsible for purchasing decisions on behalf of a government entity?
- Are you related (parent, child, spouse, sibling, or in-law) to a Government Official who is: (1) An elected official; (2) A party official, politician, or political appointee; (3) A judicial or law enforcement officer, such as a judge, prosecutor, or police officer; (4) Working in a regulatory entity; (5) An inspector or auditor; or (6) Responsible for purchasing decisions on behalf of a government entity? If you do not know whether the answer is yes or no, please indicate unsure. Government Official means any director, officer, or employee (whether elected or appointed) of a Government, or any candidate for any position therein. Government means any: •government, U.S. or non-U.S., whether at the national, regional, state, or local/municipal level; •Government Aviation Authority; •airline owned (in whole or in part) or operated by a government; •organization, company, or business acting in an official capacity on behalf of a government; •organization, company, or business in which a government holds a controlling interest or effective management control; •political party; •public international organization (e.g., United Nations, World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Civil Aviation Organization, etc.); or •department, agency, subdivision, of an organization listed above
- Are you related to any of the following: • Executive Officers of Raytheon Technologies, who are Gregory J. Hayes, Neil G. Mitchill, Jr, Frank R. Jimenez, Dantaya Williams, Michael R. Dumais, Roy Azevedo, Christopher T. Calio, Wesley D. Kremer, Stephen Timm, Amy L. Johnson, Kevin G. DaSilva; or • Directors of the Raytheon Technologies Board of Directors, who are Gregory J. Hayes, Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Marshall O. Larsen, Robert K. Ortberg, Margaret L. O’Sullivan, Denise L. Ramos, Fredric G. Reynolds, Brian C. Rogers, Tracy A. Atkinson, George R. Oliver, Dinesh C. Paliwal, Ellen M. Pawlikowski, James A. Winnefeld, Jr., Robert O. Work. “Related to” is defined as: spouse, parent, stepparent, grandparent, child (including through adoptive relationships), stepchild, brother, sister, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or any person (other than a tenant or employee) who shares your household.
About this role
Date Posted:
2026-09-24

 Country:
United Kingdom

 Location:
London, London, City of

 Position Role Type:
Onsite
Principal Data Engineer
Location: London
Permanent
Onsite
Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to hold an active eDV clearance for this role.
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.
With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.
Cyber
Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard our national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Working in a mature, agile environment, our SCRUM teams work synchronously with our customers to solve some of the toughest digital challenges faced in the world today.
Role & Responsibilities
You'll be part of our experienced Software Engineering function, working in a cross-functional Agile team. The Principal Data Engineer role will be responsible for building and maintaining data processing pipelines and also the transformation and optimisation of data for analytical use.
- Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources
- Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers
- Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project
- Contribute to continuous improvement within your team
- Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team
Requirements/knowledge (you don't need everything)
- Experience of working in an Agile delivery team
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
- Python (PySpark, Pandas, PyArrow)
- Distributed data processing (Apache Spark)
- Data ETL (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Apache NiFi)
- Cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Messaging / Streaming (Kafka, AWS SQS, Other Cloud Queuing Native services)
- SQL and NoSQL
- Storage (HDFS, Iceberg, Elastic, S3, Data Lake)
- Containerisation and orchestration (Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift)
- Testing frameworks and best practices
- Use of Code repositories, familiarity with branching strategies, pull requests and merge processes
We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas! Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.
Benefits
- £: Competitive salary
- Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
- 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
- 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
- Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
- Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
Work Culture
- 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
- Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
- Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
- Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
- Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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