Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

VIQU Ltd

Penwortham, UK

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£90,000.0 - £100,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

find.jobs

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration Information Engineering Data Governance Data Warehousing Database Queries Python (Programming Language) Scrum Methodology Systems Development Life Cycle Cloud Services Google Cloud

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Cloud Platform System Data Ingestion Sql Optimization Data Lakes Terraform Data Pipelines Docker

Job description

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

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 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