Principal Data Engineer — Cloud Data Platform Leader

Dunelm; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

2 days in London/Leicester office

Job summary

Dunelm is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead our data engineering capability, shaping the cloud-first data platform and ensuring trusted, scalable data products across the business. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align strategy with governance and long-term technology direction.

The role expects balancing line management with hands-on design leadership, as part of the data leadership team representing our data capability inside and outside the

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading data engineering teams.
• Expertise in modern data stack and cloud-first data platforms.
• Proficiency with Snowflake, AWS, and DBT.
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills.
• Experience with CI/CD and IaC (GitHub/GitLab, Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and mentoring to lead data engineers.
• Lead on the creation and design of technical solutions for the FA, collaborating across teams to ensure solutions are delivered to expected timelines and quality.
• Providing estimates for epics and stories with a focus on technical complexity and dependencies.
• Own technical risks and issues at project and program level.
• Own remediation issues for service and support across the data ecosystem.
• Support and develop talent through lead engineers, with clear career pathways and retention strategies.

Skills

Line management

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Data modelling

CI/CD

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

AWS S3

AWS Lambda

SQS

Kinesis

DBT

Job description

Dunelm is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead our data engineering capability, shaping the cloud-first data platform and ensuring trusted, scalable data products across the business. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align strategy with governance and long-term technology direction.

The role expects balancing line management with hands-on design leadership, as part of the data leadership team representing our data capability inside and outside the