Principal Data Engineer – Cloud Data Mesh Architect

Places for People; Knaphill; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension matched up to 7%

35 days annual leave (with buy/sell)

Healthcare cashback up to £500/year

2% bonus scheme

Training and development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Places for People is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to drive the engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices across data product domains. You will foster decentralised data ownership while ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability on the Google Cloud Platform.

You will lead the design and build of data pipelines, ensure data quality and security, and mentor a team of data engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust data solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as lead/principal data engineer.
• Experience on cloud data platforms (GCP preferred).
• Strong data mesh principles and product thinking.
• Mentoring and coaching of data engineers.
• Experience with data lake/warehouse solutions.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Experience with CI/CD in data engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across product domains.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for data platform.
• Mentor and develop data engineers; establish coding standards.
• Drive cross-domain interoperability and governance enablement.
• Influence innovation and strategic direction of data solutions.
• Oversee data ingestion, quality, transformation, security, and cost controls.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Mentorship

Cross domain interoperability

GCP experience

Data Mesh

Data governance

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Agile/SDLC

CI/CD

Tools

BigQuery

DataFlow

Data Fusion

Data Stream

Cloud Functions

Airflow/Composer

Job description

Places for People is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to drive the engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices across data product domains. You will foster decentralised data ownership while ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability on the Google Cloud Platform.

You will lead the design and build of data pipelines, ensure data quality and security, and mentor a team of data engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust data solutions.