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Role: Principal Data Engineer
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 per annum
Location: Manchester (Remote/ Once a month)
VIQU have partnered with a national organisation going through an exciting transformation in their data infrastructure and so are hiring a principal data engineer to lead the design of their platform within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role will involve an even split of technical engineering, architecture and leadership/people management.
Requirements for the Principal Data Engineer:
- Experience as a lead or principal data engineer.
- Prior experience designing data platform(s) within GCP, working hands on with; Airflow, Big Query, Data Flow, Data Fusion, and Data Stream.
- Deep understanding of Data Mesh/ decentralised design and Data Lake/Warehouse solutions.
- Previously led teams of data engineers.
- Hands on skills across the GCP tech stack, SQL and Python.
- Ability to lead cultural change across organisations, and manage senior stakeholders.
- Ability to work across multiple contexts and teams.
Job Duties of the Principal Data Engineer:
- Lead the architecture, best practise and engineering strategy of data squads.
- Hands on data engineering work, utilising both python and SQL.
- Mentor and lead teams of engineers, checking and reviewing code, and setting standards.
- Ensure all data platform processes; including ingestion, quality, transformation, security, batch management, monitoring, alerting, and cost control are efficient.
- Design and help build the data platform – ensuring data is processed through semantic layers and can be modelled effectively.
- Suggest improvements for automation and cost savings.
- Lead changes across the organisation, adopting a decentralised design.
Role: Principal Data Engineer
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 per annum
Location: Manchester (Remote/Hybrid)
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