Principal Data Engineer
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Principal Data Engineer
£80,000 - £90,000
Remote (monthly meets in London)
This is a rare chance to join an early-stage data consultancy where you will shape technical delivery, build from the ground up, and work directly with clients on high impact projects. If you want true ownership, variety across industries, and the opportunity to build real solutions rather than maintain legacy platforms, this role offers exactly that.
THE COMPANY
They are a young, fast-growing consultancy focused on data engineering and machine learning. Backed by a clear vision and strong funding runway, they partner with organisations to modernise manual, fragmented data processes. Their work spans industries, including asset focused, creative sectors.
THE ROLE
As Lead Data Engineer, you will take ownership of technical delivery while working closely with clients from the very first conversation.
Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:
- Join client meetings to understand challenges, assess requirements and shape solution thinking.
- Lead the design and build of ingestion, transformation and centralisation pipelines.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Lead Data Engineer will have the following skills and experience:
- Strong commercial experience building data pipelines and platforms end-to-end.
- Hands on engineering across ingestion, transformation and data centralisation.
- Experience with tools such as Glue, Fivetran, Kafka, Dataflow, ADF or Kinesis.
- Transformation experience using dbt, Spark or Databricks.
- Confidence working directly with clients and engaging in technical discussions.
- Exposure to dashboards, analytics, ML or LLM concepts is beneficial, but not essential.
BENEFITS
The successful Principal Data Engineer will receive the following benefits:
- Salary between £80,000 - £90,000 - depending on experience.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.