Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Northwest – Hybrid

Up to £100,000

VIQU are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join a leading social enterprise that reinvests profits to create thriving, sustainable communities. Following a full transition to a 100% cloud-based data platform, the Principal Data Engineer will play a key part in shaping and leading the organisation’s data engineering capability, with a strong focus on technical leadership, platform design and mentoring engineers within a Google Cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities of the Principal Data Engineer:

Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to data engineers

Define how data engineering projects are approached, delivered and governed

Work closely with architects to design and evolve the cloud data platform

Ensure robust, scalable and compliant data pipelines across the platform

Lead best practices around data ingestion, transformation, quality, security and monitoring

Drive automation, CI/CD adoption and continuous improvement

Challenge technical decisions and raise engineering standards across the team

Key Requirements of the Principal Data Engineer:

Extensive experience in Data Engineering, with time spent in a Lead or Principal role

Strong background working in a cloud-native data platform

Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred, with consideration for AWS or Azure alongside some GCP

Experience with Terraform, Docker and dbt

Strong expertise in Data Lake / Data Warehouse solutions

Advanced SQL and Python skills

Proven experience optimising complex queries

Strong understanding of Data Governance, including lineage, data legislation and PII

Experience working within Agile / Scrum and the SDLC

Willingness to undergo a DBS check

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Katie Dark via the VIQU IT website.

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Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Northwest – Hybrid

Up to £100,000