Principal Data Engineer, Technology Directorate
UK Visa Sponsorship Analytics
Above analytics are generated algorithmically based on job titles and may not always be the same as the company's job classification. You can also check detailed occupation eligibility, and salary criteria on our UK Visa Eligible Occupations & Salary Thresholds page.
Disclaimer: Hunt UK Visa Sponsors aggregates job listings from publicly available sources, such as search engines, to assist with your job hunting. We do not claim affiliation with Women in Data®. For the most up-to-date job details, please visit the official website by clicking "Apply Now."
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Location - Leeds
- Flexible Working Options
This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:
- Job share
- Flexible start and end time to each day
- Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
- A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
- Compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team)
- Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)
A Day in the Role:
Your day starts with aligning across programmes and teams, ensuring the Bank’s data initiatives are moving in the right strategic direction. Apart from focusing on your individual tasks, you also concentrate on the bigger picture - identifying risks, guiding priorities, and shaping how teams work together.
Throughout the day, you act as a technical leader and strategic advisor, helping define how the organisation designs, governs, and uses data. You work with senior stakeholders across technology, governance, and business areas to ensure the platform remains trusted, scalable, efficient, and compliant.
A key part of your role is setting standards and enabling others: guiding engineering approaches, mentoring senior colleagues, and helping teams adopt consistent patterns that raise quality and accelerate delivery across the organisation.
You also contribute to cross‑Bank initiatives — from modernisation programmes to long‑term platform strategy — influencing decisions that shape how the Bank manages and uses data in the future.
By the end of the day, your impact is measured not in code delivered, but in clarity provided, decisions unblocked, teams strengthened, and strategic direction reinforced.
About Us
We are Data Services, our mission is to unlock the value of data by delivering high-quality, reliable, and secure data services that are accessible, understandable, and actionable! We continuously evolve our offerings, using modern cloud-based technologies, and foster strong partnerships to help our colleagues in the Bank navigate the complexities of a data-driven world and achieve their strategic objectives.
Job Description
The use of data within Central Banking is evolving. The combination of data being collected at scale and significant advances in data technology has created the need to expand our Data Engineering team in Data Services. We are building the Bank’s strategic cloud data platform to host products that solve real-world problems while putting customers at the centre. The Principal Data Engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and supporting data pipelines on the Bank’s data platform. You will lead innovative, data-centric products and predictive analysis work while developing automated solutions that continuously improve data engineering across the Bank. Your technical leadership will establish a centre of excellence, ensure regulatory compliance, and deliver smart, customer-focused designs.
Role Requirements
- Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable, cost-effective, and secure distributed architectures using Azure services such as Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business and technical requirements into innovative, automated solutions.
- Continuously innovate and evolve data ingestion and transformation framework design and implementation to meet modern data platform needs while providing comprehensive guidelines for customers.
- Manage the technical relationship with one or more Azure Data product groups, identifying common solution patterns and developing reusable frameworks.
- Lead the identification of dependencies and produce detailed design documents for data pipeline solutions.
- Leverage subject-matter expertise to drive project and release plans with key stakeholders including SMEs and Product Owners.
- Participate in organisation-wide projects and steering committees while devising strategies for containerisation, orchestration, and API management.
- Design robust data replication architectures and implement methods to integrate AI and ML into platform and backend solutions in line with responsible AI principles.
Minimum Criteria
- Extensive experience in data engineering on an Azure data platform, with a strong background in modernization and large-scale migration projects. Proven ability to coach and mentor others effectively in a senior capacity
- Demonstrable experience designing and managing metadata-driven frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
- Competence in and hands-on experience managing Databricks environments and developing lakehouse architectures with a focus on automation, performance tuning, cost optimisation, and system reliability.
- Proven proficiency in programming languages such as Python, T-SQL, and PySpark, with practical knowledge of test-driven development.
Essential Criteria
- Proven ability to coach and mentor others effectively in a senior capacity, showcasing leadership skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a track record of building and managing teams effectively.
- In-depth knowledge of data engineering practices and tools, including strategic decision-making within cloud environments.
- Strong problem-solving and adaptability to manage complex and dynamic projects.
Desirable Criteria
- Excellent leadership and communication skills with a proven track record in mentoring teams and driving data modernisation initiatives.
- Experience working with advanced containerisation and orchestration tools such as Azure Container Instances or Kubernetes.
- Prior experience designing and implementing AI/ML driven solutions within data platforms.
- Relevant certifications such as Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent industry credentials.
Salary and Benefits Information
We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.
Leeds salary £72,320 - £81,360
In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:
- Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
- A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
About Us
We are the UK's central bank - and we are a bank like no other; known by our peers for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.
Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe. We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.
It takes a great team to run the Bank of England. We rely on each other to play our part. We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives. We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives helps us make the best decisions for the public.
There's much to gain from working with us - from career defining work at the heart of the UK economy, being part of a fantastic team, and a rewarding compensation package.
Join us and find a bank like no other. Together, we can make a difference.
The Bank of England will use and protect the information you provide when you apply for a role with us, in line with our obligations under data protection law. This is so we can assess your suitability for the role and administer your application. If you’re successful we’ll use it to offer you a position and onboard you to join the Bank.
If you would like more details about how your information will be used and your information rights, please visit our recruitment privacy notice
We are proud supporters of Women in Data®. Connect, engage and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.
Stay connected! Follow us on LinkedInfor updates on career opportunities and more.