Principal Data Engineer — Remote & Technical Leadership

CreateFuture; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible working

Hybrid/Remote options

Office hubs in Edinburgh, Leeds, MANCh

Zusammenfassung

CreateFuture is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to shape engineering strategy and drive data platform excellence across client engagements. Based in the UK, you’ll lead architecture decisions and mentor engineers.

You’ll work across consulting contexts, design real-time pipelines, ensure data quality, and partner with cloud services. The role blends technical leadership with client-facing impact and growth opportunities.

Qualifikationen

• Extensive consulting background delivering data engineering solutions.
• Ability to design end-to-end data platforms on major cloud providers (AWS preferred).
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management.
• Proven track record in mentoring engineers.

Aufgaben

• Define data engineering architectures and patterns across client engagements.
• Lead large-scale data migrations and real-time pipelines.
• Mentor Lead and Senior Data Engineers and grow the data practice.
• Represent CreateFuture externally at industry events and client settings.

Kenntnisse

Data engineering

Leadership

Python

SQL

Spark

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

AWS CDK

Kinesis

Kafka

Cloud architecture

Consulting

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

AWS CDK

Kinesis

Kafka/MSK

Spark Streaming

Jobbeschreibung

CreateFuture is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to shape engineering strategy and drive data platform excellence across client engagements. Based in the UK, you’ll lead architecture decisions and mentor engineers.

You’ll work across consulting contexts, design real-time pipelines, ensure data quality, and partner with cloud services. The role blends technical leadership with client-facing impact and growth opportunities.