Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Salary: £90,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in data engineering, including 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 of AWS or Azure alongside some GCP
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, and dbt
• Strong expertise in Data Lake and 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

Responsibilities:

• 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 our cloud data platform
• Ensure robust, scalable, and compliant data pipelines across our 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 our team

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Data Warehouse
• Docker
• GCP
• Python
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• dbt

More:

We are a leading social enterprise that reinvests profits to create thriving, sustainable communities. We have fully transitioned to a 100% cloud-based data platform, and this role will play a key part in shaping and leading our data engineering capability within a Google Cloud environment. The position is based in the Northwest on a hybrid working arrangement, with a salary of up to £100,000.

last updated 32 week of 2026