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# Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

- **Company:** VIQU Ltd
- **Location:** Birmingham, UK
- **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Warehousing, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Cloud Services, Standard Sql, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Data Ingestion, Sql Optimization, Data Lakes, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5836604912

## About the Role

* Extensive experience in data engineering, including 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 of AWS or Azure alongside some GCP
 * Experience with Terraform, Docker, and dbt
 * Strong expertise in Data Lake and 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 our cloud data platform
 * Ensure robust, scalable, and compliant data pipelines across our 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 our team

Technologies:

 * AWS
 * Azure
 * CI/CD
 * Cloud
 * Data Warehouse
 * Docker
 * GCP
 * Python
 * SQL
 * Security
 * Terraform
 * dbt

More:

We are a leading social enterprise that reinvests profits to create thriving, sustainable communities. We have fully transitioned to a 100% cloud-based data platform, and this role will play a key part in shaping and leading our data engineering capability within a Google Cloud environment. The position is based in the Northwest on a hybrid working arrangement, with a salary of up to £100,000.


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