Cloud Data Mesh Leader | Principal Data Engineer

Places for People; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension with matched contributions

Excellent holiday package - 35 days

Job summary

Places for People in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Data Engineer to lead the engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices across product domains. This role drives decentralised data ownership while ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability across the data mesh.

You will modernise the data platform on Google Cloud, shaping data ingestion, quality, security, and governance, and mentor engineers while collaborating with managers and other teams to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• Extensive cloud data engineering background with distributed systems.
• Experience leading data engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of domain driven design and data mesh.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator across technical teams.
• Hands-on with cloud tools in the Google Cloud stack.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership across product domains
• Architecture and design
• Mentorship and capability building
• Cross domain interoperability
• Governance and compliance enablement
• Innovation and strategic influence

Skills

Lead / Principal Engineer

Cloud data platform

GCP

Data Mesh

SQL

Python

CI / CD

Data Lake / Warehouse

Mentoring

Architecture & Design

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Data Fusion

Data Stream

Cloud Functions

Airflow / Composer

Job description

Places for People in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Data Engineer to lead the engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices across product domains. This role drives decentralised data ownership while ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability across the data mesh.

You will modernise the data platform on Google Cloud, shaping data ingestion, quality, security, and governance, and mentor engineers while collaborating with managers and other teams to deliver high-quality