3340 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Principal Data Engineer
£59,000 - 99,000
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Wimbledon Hill Road 51, Birmingham
£59,000 - 99,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong commercial experience building data pipelines and platforms end-to-end.
- Hands-on engineering across ingestion, transformation and data centralisation.
- Experience with tools such as Glue, Fivetran, Kafka, Dataflow, ADF or Kinesis.
- Transformation experience using dbt, Spark or Databricks.
- Confidence working directly with clients and engaging in technical discussions.
- Exposure to dashboards, analytics, ML or LLM concepts is beneficial, but not essential.
Responsibilities
- Join client meetings to understand challenges, assess requirements and shape solution thinking.
- Lead the design and build of ingestion, transformation and centralisation pipelines.
- Work with raw and unstructured data sources - spreadsheets, PDFs, and operational documents.
- Build automation capabilities and prepare environments for downstream machine learning.
- Split your time across delivery, technical consulting and internal engineering work.
- Work across cloud environments, typically GCP, AWS or Azure depending on the client.
Description
We are a young, fast-growing consultancy focused on data engineering and machine learning. Backed by a clear vision and strong funding runway, we partner with organisations to modernise manual, fragmented data processes. Our work spans various industries, including asset-focused and creative sectors. This is a rare chance to join our team as a Principal Data Engineer, offering true ownership, variety across industries, and the opportunity to build real solutions rather than maintain legacy platforms. This role offers a salary between £80,000 - £90,000 depending on experience, and allows for remote work with monthly meetings in London.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 108 different Data Engineer jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Data Engineers.