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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Data Engineer - **Company:** T-Mobile Us, Inc. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $125,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data as a Services, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Migration, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Scrum Methodology, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Snowflake, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17844718?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17844718%2FPrincipal-Data-Engineer-New-York-New-York ## About the Role We're looking for a Principal Data Engineer who brings strong technical judgment, a product-oriented mindset, and the ability to own data solutions end-to-end-from architecture and modeling to implementation and delivery-in a dynamic AdTech environment. You'll join a fast paced team that builds, runs, and operates the T-Mobile Advertising Solutions (T-Ads) platforms, including our audience building, rideshare, and retail media network solutions. This is a product used by all the major advertising agencies and many top consumer product brands in the United States., * Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 5 years of related experience (Required) * Acceptable areas of study include Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Statistics, or related technical field (Required) * 7-10 years Related experience as a Data Engineer (Required) * 5+ years developing cloud solutions using data services (Required) * Minimum 3+ years of managing or leading/coaching data engineering teams (Required) * Experience designing and building self-service analytics and big data solutions using cloud technologies (e.g., EMR, Aurora, Redshift, Glue, S3, SWF, Quicksight etc.) (Required) * Experience with the Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methods (Preferred) Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Cloud Computing (Required) * Collaboration (Required) * Data Architecture (Required) * Data Engineering (Required) * Databricks DBRX (Required) * Engineering Leadership (Required) * Project Scoping (Required) * Snowflake (Platform) (Required) Licenses and Certifications: * Cloud platform certification(s) (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, OR Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) (Required) * At least 18 years of age * Legally authorized to work in the United States ## Description This role leads the development and implementation of data pipelines critical to organizational data infrastructure and analytics capabilities. You'll combine technical leadership with hands-on contributions to achieve data engineering initiatives. 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