Principal Data Engineer — Lead Cloud-Native Data Platforms

The Very Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, hybrid working model

£1000 flexible benefits allowance

30 days holiday + bank holidays

LinkedIn Learning access

Bonus potential (performance)

Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

Matched pension up to 6%

Job summary

The Very Group is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to shape the future of data across our Very platform. You will lead architecture, design, coding and mentoring while hands-on delivering data solutions that scale for millions of customers.

Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and senior engineers to innovate, standardise engineering practices and drive platform evolution. Flexible, hybrid working with strong benefits and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting production data solutions.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and data platforms.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with exposure to Java or Scala being beneficial.
• Experience with data lakes, warehouses, Lakehouse concepts, and related tooling.
• Ability to lead, coach and influence engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Design scalable, resilient data architectures and secure data platforms.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex data engineering solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Platform, and Architecture teams to align direction.
• Coach, mentor, and raise engineering standards through reviews and patterns.
• Drive performance, scalability, reliability and cost optimisation.

Skills

AWS cloud services

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Mentoring

Tools

Amazon S3

EKS

Lambda

IAM

Iceberg

Starburst

Teradata

HVR

Job description

The Very Group is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to shape the future of data across our Very platform. You will lead architecture, design, coding and mentoring while hands-on delivering data solutions that scale for millions of customers.

Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and senior engineers to innovate, standardise engineering practices and drive platform evolution. Flexible, hybrid working with strong benefits and growth opportunities.