Senior MDM Engineer

Job Title: Senior MDM Engineer

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £48,000

What you’ll be doing:

• Translate business requirements and rules into technical design specifications
• Support the development/deployment of MDM solutions and other data service into the business, using an ITIL framework
• Work with multidimensional and relational data sets to create conformed data models, presenting an information service layer over multiple business data sources
• Support the development and enforcement of data governance policies and data quality rules across multiple MDM services
• Assisting in the integration and maintenance of MDM governance across customer communities
• Investigate and respond to incidents in a timely and responsive manner ensuring service level agreements are achieved, whilst maintaining consistent communications with the customer base
• Support the MDM Team Leader in developing the skills of the MDM Development Team. This will involve providing support/advice to junior colleagues as required

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• IT / Computer Science related degree or experience working in a Business Data / Master Data Management environment
• Experience of working with customers on Data projects to understand their requirements
• Experience of building data services including aspects of creating design specifications, data modelling/conditioning/integration, improving data quality, data governance, testing and deployment/support
• Recent experience of working with SQL, writing queries using multiple tables, and interpreting results
• Knowledge of MDM and the tasks of working with data sets spanning multiple domains

Desirable:

• Experience of working with MDM tools (Semarchy, TIBCO EBX, Informatica), using datasets from multiple business domains
• Experience working with ETL tools such as SSIS
• Knowledge/experience of producing/supporting data products

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The MDM Data team:

The MDM team is a rapidly expanding team whose aim is to work with all areas of the business to embed MDM within the way BAE Systems operates. Working within the team provides challenging but rewarding work with opportunity for career development & learning new skills. As a team we interact with stakeholders from all areas of the organisation, delivering services that will support BAE Systems in moving towards its goals. We value integrity & communication skills as foundations for the technical skills which are key to the development of our product line.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 22nd October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.