Defence Online

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: DATA ENGINEER 2 – FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT – SHORT DEADLINE
2. Awarding Authority: Defence Digital, MOD, GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Cyber Mission Data require a Data Engineer to work within a team of 7 in a Data Operations Team. The Data Engineer will be required to work alongside 5 x Cyber Security Consultants to run and support the onboarding of data feeds and to map out data for use cases.
5. CPV Code(s): 72000000, 72200000, 79600000, 72212000, 72220000
6. NUTS code(s): UKM, UKM8, UKM82
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Location South West England
Address where the work will take place MOD Corsham / Working from home.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Maximum day rate £750 per day MAX. (excluding VAT and inclusive of T&S)
10. Closing date for applications 11.8.2021 (11:59 pm).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit
12. Other information: Deadline for asking questions Friday 6 August 2021 at 11:59pm GMT
Specialist role Data engineer
Off-payroll (IR35) determination Supply of resource: the off-payroll rules will apply to any workers engaged through a qualifying intermediary, such as their own limited company
Latest start date Monday 20 September 2021
Expected contract length 12 months (This is dependent on the start date of the contract. The end date will remain Sept 22.)
About the work
Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with The Data Engineer will work within a small Data Operations Team, which is part of a wider Team – Cyber Mission Data Alpha. This team consists of Authority Crown Servants, current contract supplier technical resource, and separately procured technical resource.
The Cyber Mission Data Alpha team fits within the current construct of the Data as a Service function, which forms part of the wider Defence Cyber Operations.
What the specialist will work on The increase in onboarded Cyber related data.
Work within a Data Operations Team, to turn use cases into value added data visualisation to better inform decision making
Support the identification of additional data that will add Cyber Value. Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
Collaborate with operations, engineering and product development teams
Working arrangements 5 days per week, with a mixture of working from MOD Corsham and remote working. The task will dictate the location of the work e.g. if the specialist is working at secret, then the work will be completed mainly on site. They can default to remote working but if the task dictates that they attend the office then the individual must do this.
Security clearance Active SC clearance is required by the start date of the contract and will not be sponsored by MOD. Candidates must also be eligible for DV clearance as this will need to acquired for this role. Due to the clearance level required, only UK nationals can apply for this role.
Additional information
Additional terms and conditions Off-payroll working rules apply (IR35 in-scope). Any Personal Services Company (PSC) candidates will require to come through an umbrella company.
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
Essential skills and experience
Proven experience as a Data Engineer (10%)
BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Engineering or other numerical field is preferred (10%)
Experience in data mining (5%)
Awareness of machine-learning and operations research, statistical data analysis and data visualisation(5%)
Familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset (5%)
Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)(5%)
Experience of Agile development CI/CD pipeline.(5%)
Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences (10%)
Understanding of data connectivity to visualisation tools such as ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB etc. (5%)
Comprehensive understanding of Regex Syntax, use of capture groups and experience of creating Regex pattern matching syntax. (5%)
Nice-to-have skills and experience
Understanding of computer networking (WAN), including network design, security and logging.
Experience of open source data processing/management tools such as NiFi, Spark, Kafka, Druid, Oozie Storm, Hive, HDFS etc.
Understanding of Regex Syntax, use of capture groups and experience of creating Regex pattern matching syntax.
Experience of working with network security data sets, including Syslog, CEF, IDS/IPS Log etc.
Familiarity with Red Hat Linux Operating System.
Able to write scripts using Python or Bash.
How suppliers will be evaluated
All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.
How many specialists to evaluate 3
Cultural fit criteria
work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers (1%)
be transparent and collaborative when making decisions (1%)
have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes (1%)
take responsibility for their work (1%)
share knowledge and experience with other team members (1%)
Additional assessment methods Interview
Evaluation weighting
Technical competence
65%
Cultural fit
5%
Price

30%
Questions asked by suppliers
Is there a preferred incumbent/supplier? There is not an incumbent for this role. The work is currently being covered by reservists or individuals who are working in another role.
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