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# Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

- **Company:** VIQU Ltd
- **Location:** Penwortham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Cloud Platform System, Data Ingestion, Sql Optimization, Data Lakes, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2918692771-2

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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