Principal Data Engineer: AI-Powered Control Planes

Upbound; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading innovation firm in cloud technology is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the design and development of advanced data platforms for AI initiatives. This role involves defining the technical vision for data infrastructure that supports AI-driven features and requires a deep understanding of both data engineering and machine learning. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience, with a strong background in building scalable data platforms and a passion for advancing intelligent infrastructure solutions.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software/data engineering experience, including 4 years in technical leadership roles.
• Proven track record building scalable data platforms.
• Experience with large language model (LLM) applications.

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision for data platforms.
• Lead design of data pipelines for ML models.
• Architect systems that support semantic search and vector search.

Skills

Data platform development

Machine Learning infrastructure

Leadership in software engineering

Vector databases

Cloud-native architecture

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Job description

A leading innovation firm in cloud technology is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the design and development of advanced data platforms for AI initiatives. This role involves defining the technical vision for data infrastructure that supports AI-driven features and requires a deep understanding of both data engineering and machine learning. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience, with a strong background in building scalable data platforms and a passion for advancing intelligent infrastructure solutions.