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Principal Data Engineer - King's Cross
£85,000 - 100,000
VIQU IT
Brunswick Square 29-39, King's Cross
£85,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Extensive experience in Data Engineering, with time spent in a Lead or Principal role
- Strong background working in a cloud-native data platform
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred, with consideration for AWS or Azure alongside some GCP
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, and dbt
- Strong expertise in Data Lake / Data Warehouse solutions
- Advanced SQL and Python skills
- Proven experience optimizing complex queries
- Strong understanding of Data Governance, including lineage, data legislation, and PII
- Experience working within Agile / Scrum and the SDLC
- Willingness to undergo a DBS check
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to data engineers
- Define how data engineering projects are approached, delivered, and governed
- Work closely with architects to design and evolve the cloud data platform
- Ensure robust, scalable, and compliant data pipelines across the platform
- Lead best practices around data ingestion, transformation, quality, security, and monitoring
- Drive automation, CI/CD adoption, and continuous improvement
- Challenge technical decisions and raise engineering standards across the team
Description
We are VIQU, a leading social enterprise seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join our team in a hybrid role based in the Northwest. We reinvest profits to create thriving, sustainable communities and have transitioned to a 100% cloud-based data platform. This position offers competitive compensation of up to £100,000 and provides the opportunity to shape and lead our data engineering capability while mentoring fellow engineers in a supportive environment.
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