# Data Engineer
Based in The Hague, Netherlands, you will join the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) as a Data Engineer supporting NATO's Digital Endeavour. You will work within the Chief Technology Office (CTO) to transform IT services and establish technical vision and IT engineering strategy.
## Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure and maintain data platform components (orchestrators, catalogues, object stores, query engines and lakehouse tooling) on containerized infrastructure using GitOps practices, across cloud-connected and airgapped/disconnected environments including the tactical edge
- Apply DataOps practices to automate, monitor and continuously improve data pipelines – pipeline observability, data quality automation, CI/CD for data and metadata management – and provide basic MLOps support to enable AI/ML workloads
- Oversee, coordinate, and provide guidance to industry partners to ensure their work aligns with project objectives, timelines, and quality standards
- Advise NATO Enterprise and Alliance partners on data architectural frameworks, including Data Mesh, Data Space and federated governance models, contributing to standardisation and capability coherence across the Alliance
- Take ownership of platform and architectural challenges, proactively identifying opportunities to improve capability and coherence and driving initiatives with a high degree of autonomy
This is a hands-on engineering role with real autonomy where you will be trusted to take ownership of complex challenges and drive them to a result without needing detailed direction.