Principal Data Engineer - Kings Cross
Summary
Leads and mentors data engineers to design, optimize, and govern cloud-based data pipelines, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance in a fully cloud-native environment.
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements
- 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, 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 optimizing 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Technologies
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Data Warehouse
- Docker
- GCP
- Python
- SQL
- Security
- Terraform
- dbt
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We are a leading social enterprise that reinvests profits to create thriving, sustainable communities. We are currently seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join our team in the Northwest on a hybrid basis. This role will play a key part in shaping and leading our organisations data engineering capability within a 100% cloud-based data platform. We offer a competitive salary of up to £100,000.
last updated 33 week of 2026