Principal Data Engineer — Cloud Data Architect

CreateFuture; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CreateFuture is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to guide the data practice across multiple client engagements in the UK. You’ll own architecture decisions, design streaming and lakehouse patterns, and mentor Lead/Senior engineers, shaping playbooks and contributing to pre-sales and delivery.

Ideal candidates have consultancy experience, deep cloud data experience (AWS preferred), strong Python/SQL skills, and a track record of delivering complex data solutions with high quality and compliance

Qualifications

• Significant consultancy, professional services, or client-facing delivery experience.
• Shaped and sold technical work—proposals, scoping engagements, architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and own data engineering architecture patterns across client engagements.
• Lead the technical design and execution of large-scale data migrations to modern cloud platforms.
• Architect real-time and near-real-time data pipelines to meet latency and correctness requirements.
• Mentor Lead and Senior Data Engineers; contribute to playbooks and hiring.

Skills

Consulting background

Data engineering leadership

Cloud data engineering mastery

Python

Job description

CreateFuture is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to guide the data practice across multiple client engagements in the UK. You’ll own architecture decisions, design streaming and lakehouse patterns, and mentor Lead/Senior engineers, shaping playbooks and contributing to pre-sales and delivery.

Ideal candidates have consultancy experience, deep cloud data experience (AWS preferred), strong Python/SQL skills, and a track record of delivering complex data solutions with high quality and compliance