Principal Data Engineer

Job summary

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will drive architecture and technical strategy for the Data domain, ensuring data remains a competitive advantage while collaborating with multiple teams to deliver strategic business objectives.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data architecture and OLAP domains
• Strong understanding of data modelling techniques and cloud-native systems
• Experience leveraging unstructured data for product development
• Ability to communicate and influence across technical and non-technical audiences
• Support growth of engineers while delivering value across teams
• Experience in ownership culture focusing on quality and security
• Understanding of AI-first engineering impact on data ecosystem
• Experience contributing to technical communities of practice
• Knowledge of DataOps principles and complex pipeline orchestration
• Commercial knowledge of data security standards and compliance laws
• Experience optimizing SaaS platform spend and forecasting models

Responsibilities

• Define and evangelise target architectures bridging transactional, analytical, and AI systems
• Lead end-to-end data lifecycle from OLTP schema design to OLAP governance
• Partner with Technical Leads for feature delivery and architecture improvements
• Collaborate with Product Directors to translate product vision into deliverables
• Lead shift to AI-First working, architecting data foundations for AI
• Architect infrastructure for LLM orchestration and real-time model inference
• Mentor Technical Leads and Senior Engineers on architectural excellence
• Act as a role model for technical leadership
• Head architectural reviews ensuring compliance with quality standards
• Collaborate to shape broader technology strategy
• Partner with Engineering Management to grow teams and resolve bottlenecks

Skills

Relocation