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# Principal Data Engineer

- **Company:** Morson Group
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Salary:** £182,000.0 - £208,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Apache HTTP Server, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Snowflake, Pyspark
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.morson.com/jobs/40458/apply

## About the Role

Snowflake - Warehouses, Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe, Snowpark, UDFs/Stored Procedures, Time Travel and Cloning.
Snowpark and end-to-end pipeline development. Experience with PySpark, Polars or Dask is also valuable.
Python, including testing, build tooling and engineering best practices.
SQL, including Snowflake-optimised SQL.
dbt, including Jinja templating, or equivalent transformation frameworks.
CI/CD, ideally with GitHub Actions, TeamCity or Artifactory.
Agile software/data engineering environments and modern engineering practices.

Our client is also looking for someone who can work independently, communicate complex technical ideas clearly, collaborate effectively with stakeholders and champion better ways of working.

Nice to Have

Experience with Docker, Java/Scala, Kafka, Pulsar, Azure Event Hub, Collibra, Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow, PySpark or AI engineering technologies such as Snowflake AI, LangChain, LlamaIndex or Pinecone would be advantageous.

## Description

You'll be responsible for:

Designing and delivering scalable data platform solutions using Snowflake and complementary technologies.
Building and optimising end-to-end ELT/data pipelines, with a focus on performance, reliability and maintainability.
Helping shape data strategy, engineering standards and best practices around governance and data democratisation.
Supporting the adoption of advanced analytics, AI and machine learning capabilities.
Developing Infrastructure as Code alongside Cloud Engineering.
Ensuring solutions meet data privacy, security and compliance requirements.
Working collaboratively within an Agile environment and across the wider business.
Keeping up with emerging technologies and driving continuous improvement across the platform.


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