Principal Data Engineer (GCP)
Summary
Lead the design and delivery of a cloud-native data platform on GCP, mentoring engineers and setting best practices for scalable, compliant data pipelines and governance.
Principal Data Engineer (GCP)
Northwest - Hybrid
Up to £100,000
VIQU are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join a leading social enterprise that reinvests profits to create thriving, sustainable communities. Following a full transition to a 100% cloud-based data platform, the Principal Data Engineer will play a key part in shaping and leading the organisation's data engineering capability, with a strong focus on technical leadership, platform design and mentoring engineers within a Google Cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities of the Principal Data Engineer:
- Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to data engineers
- Define how data engineering projects are approached, delivered and governed
- Work closely with architects to design and evolve the cloud data platform
- Ensure robust, scalable and compliant data pipelines across the platform
- Lead best practices around data ingestion, transformation, quality, security and monitoring
- Drive automation, CI/CD adoption and continuous improvement
- Challenge technical decisions and raise engineering standards across the team
Key Requirements of the Principal Data Engineer:
- Extensive experience in Data Engineering, with time spent in a Lead or Principal role
- Strong background working in a cloud-native data platform
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred, with consideration for AWS or Azure alongside some GCP
- Experience with Terraform, Docker and dbt
- Strong expertise in Data Lake/Data Warehouse solutions
- Advanced SQL and Python skills
- Proven experience optimising complex queries
- Strong understanding of Data Governance, including lineage, data legislation and PII
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum and the SDLC
- Willingness to undergo a DBS check
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Principal Data Engineer (GCP)
Northwest - Hybrid
Up to £100,000