Scaletek
Principal Data Engineer
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Principal Data Engineer
Principal Data Engineer
Role Overview
Tech-for-good business seeking a Principal Data Engineer to contribute to a major industry player’s transition to GCP and the development of a modern, scalable Data Mesh architecture.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the business’ data platform and engineering capabilities, delivering scalable, domain-driven data ownership.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across data product teams
- Define architecture, engineering standards, and best practices
- Ensure the data platform remains scalable, secure, and high-performing
- Design, evolve, and support Data Mesh platform development
- Oversee data ingestion, transformation, governance, quality, monitoring, and cost optimisation across GCP
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Location & Salary
- Hybrid role (1 day per week in office) across locations in the North of England
- £90,000-£100,000 per annum
- 35 days holiday + 7% company pension
Technical Requirements
You should have experience in one or more of the following:
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- Lead/Principal Data Engineering roles
- GCP specialisms, including:
- BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion, Datastream, Cloud Functions, Dataproc, Airflow/Composer
- SQL and Python
- Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and large-scale data processing platforms
- Data Mesh principles and domain-driven design methods
If you meet these technical criteria and bring a passion for tech-for-good, we’d love to hear from you!
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