Job Description

Deadline Date: Tuesday 26 May 2026

Requirement: Data Engineer

Location: The Hague, NL

Full Time On-Site: No

Time On-Site: 60%

Total Scope of the request (hours): 836

Required Start Date: 2 July 2026

End Contract Date: 31 December 2026

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Duties & Role:

A Data Engineer is responsible for implementing, building, testing, and maintaining the infrastructure and architecture required for the efficient and reliable processing of various types of data. Selected candidate works with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and other stakeholders to understand the data requirements, identify data sources, and implement the necessary processes to transform and load the data into the target systems. They are also responsible for ensuring the integrity, availability and security of the data throughout its lifecycle, and for continuously optimizing the data pipelines to meet the evolving business needs.

Requirements

Skill, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline, such as Computer Science, Data Science and Engineering, and post- related experience.
• Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
• Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, including data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes and data governance
• Experience in planning and maintaining data lakes and pipeline processes, both batch-wise and (near) real-time;
• Experience in using of data engineering tools to support development of data science, data analytics and AI applications for both, structured and unstructured, data
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools to ensure the reliability and performance of data pipelines and AI systems.
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
• Solid understanding of good software development principles such as version control, CI/CD, unit/functional testing.
• Strong proficiency in Python for building and integrating various data engineering components
• Solid understanding of data security best practices, including data encryption, access controls, authentication/authorization mechanisms, and compliance requirements.