Principal Data Engineer

UK Dementia Research Institute; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

41 days holiday

Relocation assistance

On-site gym

Pension CARE

Cycle to work scheme

Staff support services

Job summary

University College London (UCL) ISD is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead data enabling/transformation initiatives, designing and implementing data flows to connect operational systems with analytics and BI. The role works closely with platform owners and senior stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions across the university.

You will bring deep experience in data integration, on-premise and cloud environments (FiveTran, AWS, Azure), data modelling, and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Data Enabling/Transformation teams in matrix agile environments.
• Experience implementing data integration and transformations—on‑premise and cloud.
• Knowledge of data modelling and re-use across services/products.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of data flows and integrations.
• Collaborate with Platform Owner and senior stakeholders to deliver data solutions.
• Support data governance, quality and security across data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Data integration

Cloud platforms

Agile

Stakeholder management

DevOps CI/CD

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

FiveTran

AWS

Azure

Fabric

Copilot Studio

API integration

DevOps tooling

Job description

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering.

We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. IT Service and Operations manages the infrastructure and data platforms which underpin UCL's central IT services, including data centres, cloud compute and storage platforms, networks, telephony, communications and collaboration and enterprise applications. In addition, IT Service and Operations provides an End-to-end Service Management capability, ensuring UCL's IT services are relevant, responsive and resilient.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant contribution at a Global University by joining UCL’s Information Services Division (ISD) as a Principal Data Engineer. UCL’s vision is to transform how the world is understood, how knowledge is created and shared, and the way that global problems are solved.

A carefully managed Data Asset is critical to UCL’s vision. The Principal Data Engineer is the key Technical lead in the Data Enabling team and plays an essential role in designing, developing and implementing data flows and Integrations to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.

Working closely with the Platform Owner, architecture and other senior stakeholders to identify and implement solutions to numerous data flows that are strategically aligned

About you

You will be experienced in Technically leading a Data Enabling / Transformation team in a matrix agile environment. Your track record will be to have delivered exceptional results by working with a wide range of stakeholders, coupled with experience in service management, user experience, and a healthy growth mindset.

You need to have previous in-depth industry knowledge and experience of implementing and supporting Data integration, flows and transformations both on-premise and ideally Cloud (FiveTran, AWS, Azure) in a large scale and complex organisation. You also understand the concepts and principles of data modelling and recognise opportunities for re-use and alignment between services and products.

Technically, you will also require good exposure across Fabric, Copilot studio, data engineering, advanced analytics using data science concepts, API integration, DevOps Ci/CD, data governance and quality.

It is essential that you have good interpersonal skills and are able to persuade and influence stakeholders. You will be skilful at facilitating and enabling team collaboration, have knowledge across both delivery and service and be able to manage conflicting priorities.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance Visit

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we wantour community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We arecommitted to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to beinga place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to beunderrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include peoplefrom Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+people, and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women

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