Data Principal

AND Digital Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension: 6% + 2%

Aviva healthcare

Flexibenefit £1000

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Eye test and glasses

Parental Benefits

Job summary

AND Digital Limited is seeking a Data Principal to provide expert architectural leadership and strategic consulting for our enterprise clients. You will balance technical authority with business-focused outcomes, guiding delivery teams and stakeholders to design scalable data platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive quality, and champion best practices across the data product lifecycle, including discovery, pipelines, ETL/streaming, and analytics to enable informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Proven track record guiding enterprise data transformations.
• Experience translating complex data concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to design scalable data platforms with strong data governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across client portfolios.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and stakeholders to solve data problems.
• Mentor engineers and drive high-quality technical delivery.
• Ensure robust testing, performance tuning and data quality.

Skills

Stakeholder communication

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Mentoring engineers

Adaptive / pragmatic

Collaboration

Communication clarity

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Fabric

Python

SQL

Job description

Data Principal:

To strengthen AND's position as a leader in the data industry, we are seeking a Data Principal to provide expert technical consulting and architectural leadership for our clients. This pivotal role requires a deep balance of technical authority and strategic consulting. You will work closely with our delivery teams and client stakeholders to solve complex enterprise data challenges, design scalable modern data platforms, and ensure high-quality technical execution across our client portfolios.

About you:

• You care deeply about producing high-quality technical work that delivers real business value.
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex technical problems collaboratively.
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning.
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with technical teams and business stakeholders.
• You’re pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused.
• You enjoy sharing knowledge, mentoring engineers, and helping others grow.
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams.

Your Consulting & Technical Leadership:

• Advisory & Problem Solving: You have a proven track record of guiding clients through complex data transformations. You excel at navigating the complexities of enterprise-scale problem solving, turning business challenges into robust technical solutions.
• Stakeholder Communication: You are a master of client-facing technical delivery. You can seamlessly translate complex data concepts into clear business value for non-technical stakeholders while maintaining deep credibility with engineering teams.
• Designing for People and Purpose: Your expertise goes beyond just building scalable architectures; you design systems with a focus on delivering value. You ensure that your extensible solutions are implemented because they consistently meet the evolving needs of both the business and its users.
• Quality & Industry Stewardship: You champion quality assurance, robust testing, and performance tuning, ensuring the data platforms we build are reliable and respected. You keep a continuous pulse on industry standards, best practices, and emerging technologies.

Your Technical Skills:

You lead by example. While your primary focus is strategic and architectural, you maintain the technical depth required to guide teams through the full Data Product Lifecycle:

• Technology Breadth: You bring a seasoned perspective to both modern and traditional ecosystems - with extensive experience architecting data solutions using cloud services. You have deep knowledge of the modern data stack (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric), and manage delivery with an Agile mindset.
• Data Architecture Design: You know exactly how (but especially when) to implement varied architectural patterns, data modelling approaches, and AI/Data Science.
• End-to-End Capabilities: You understand the full lifecycle of data: discovery, storage, pipelines, ETL, and streaming, right through to data quality, metadata management, and advanced analytics for core decision-making.
• Data Product Mentality: You design Data Products ensuring that every pipeline and dataset is discoverable, addressable, and secure by design.
• Technical Credibility: You speak the language of data fluently (e.g. Python, SQL) and can step in to review code, provide prototypes, or troubleshoot highly complex technical escalations when required.

Why join AND Digital?

We’re on a mission to close the world’s tech skills gap.

We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster.

Since 2014, we’ve worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology.

Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers.

embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.

We’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way.

Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we’re organised into regional ‘Clubs’ of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole.

Our Practice Areas act as a ‘second home’ for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy.

Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
• Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
• Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
• Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Eye test + first pair of glasses.
• Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.

Equal Opportunities Statement

Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We’re actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

AI Statement

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