Principal Data Engineer — Data Mesh & GCP Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension up to 7% matched

35 days leave

Perks and discounts

Job summary

Places for People seeks a Principal Data Engineer to lead the engineering strategy across data domains on the Google Cloud Platform. You will shape the data mesh, drive architectures, and mentor engineers to deliver robust, secure, and scalable data pipelines.

You will collaborate with the Data Domain Architect and the Principal Data Platform Engineer to optimise the data platform, implement CI/CD, and promote best practices across teams.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in data engineering.
• Experience in lead / principal engineer roles.
• Cloud data platform experience.
• GCP experience with BigQuery, DataFlow, Data Fusion, Data Stream, Cloud Functions, Airflow/Composer.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy across data domains.
• Architect and design robust data pipelines.
• Mentor data engineers and set coding standards.
• Ensure governance, security, and cost controls.

Skills

SQL

Python

Leadership

Mentoring

Data Governance

CI/CD

Cloud Architecture

Tools

BigQuery

DataFlow

Data Fusion

Data Stream

Cloud Functions

Airflow/Composer

Job description

Places for People seeks a Principal Data Engineer to lead the engineering strategy across data domains on the Google Cloud Platform. You will shape the data mesh, drive architectures, and mentor engineers to deliver robust, secure, and scalable data pipelines.

You will collaborate with the Data Domain Architect and the Principal Data Platform Engineer to optimise the data platform, implement CI/CD, and promote best practices across teams.