Principal Data Engineer

You’ll shape technical strategy, mentor senior engineers and build scalable data solutions supporting commercial, customer and operational decisions. What you’ll be doing

• Lead the design and development of modern cloud data platforms and pipelines
• Provide technical leadership, line management and mentoring to data engineers
• Drive data architecture, engineering standards and best practices
• Manage technical risks, delivery quality and platform performance
• Optimise cloud infrastructure costs and data processing efficiency
• Collaborate with product, engineering and data quality teams

• 6-8+ years’ experience in data engineering, including technical leadership
• Strong experience with Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery (Snowflake preferred)
• Hands-on AWS experience, including S3, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS or Firehose
• Experience with dbt, Python or Node.js
• Advanced SQL and data modelling skills
• Experience with CI/CD, GitHub/GitLab and Terraform
• Proven ability to mentor and manage technical teams

Experience with Power BI, ThoughtSpot, automated testing, cloud cost optimisation or vendor management would be advantageous.

• £6,000 car allowance
• Performance-related bonus
• Hybrid working
• Share save scheme
• Additional employee benefits
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale data engineering strategy

Via is partnering with a leading UK homeware retailer looking for a Principal Data Engineer to lead the development of its cloud-first data platform.