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Principal Data Engineer (GCP)VIQU Limited • Preston, Lancashire, England
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Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

VIQU Limited • Preston, Lancashire, England
30+ days ago
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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.

Do you know someone great? We’ll thank you with up to £1,000 if your referral is successful (terms apply). For more exciting roles and opportunities like this, please follow us on LinkedIn @VIQU IT Recruitment

Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Northwest – Hybrid
Up to £100,000

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