Principal Data Engineer & Cloud Platform Lead

Lancashire County Council; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS

26 days leave

Staff discounts with Vivup

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Lancashire County Council is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the design and delivery of modern data solutions for Lancashire residents. You’ll shape data strategy, mentor engineers, and drive cloud-first architectures using Azure in a hybrid working model.

Join a digitally focused team delivering enterprise data platforms, governance, and scalable pipelines that empower smarter decisions across services. The role requires strong leadership and deep data engineering experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering and cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Strong experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data lakes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data and integration engineers.
• Design and deliver scalable data platforms and pipelines.
• Own end-to-end data engineering solutions.
• Drive modern cloud data architecture using Azure technologies.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and service teams.
• Champion best practice in data engineering and governance.

Skills

Leadership

Azure

SQL

ETL/ELT

APIs & integration

Mentoring

Job description

Lancashire County Council is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the design and delivery of modern data solutions for Lancashire residents. You’ll shape data strategy, mentor engineers, and drive cloud-first architectures using Azure in a hybrid working model.

Join a digitally focused team delivering enterprise data platforms, governance, and scalable pipelines that empower smarter decisions across services. The role requires strong leadership and deep data engineering experience.