Principal Data Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native data platforms such as lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming systems
• Strong knowledge of modelling approaches including medallion, dimensional, event-driven, and semantic layers
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks and metadata tooling
• Strong knowledge of data lineage, cataloguing, discovery, and documentation
• Strong knowledge of data quality and observability tooling
• Strong knowledge of data access and security patterns
• Skilled in standardising and creating reusable data frameworks, templates, and modules
• Experience in people leadership, including performance management, wellbeing, and personal and professional development
• Demonstrated delivery of measurable improvements in data quality, data availability, pipeline reliability, or delivery speed
• Experience partnering with governance, cyber, environments, and QE teams to enable safe, observable, governed data change

Responsibilities:

• Define the tenets, patterns, and architectural expectations that guide how data is ingested, modelled, governed, and made available across the organisation
• Bring clarity to ambiguous data problems
• Balance speed with safety
• Make decisions that raise the organisational bar
• Support the Senior Data Engineering Leader and Product Owner in decision making and execution of team responsibilities within an Azure environment

Technologies:

• Azure
• Cloud
• Support
• Product Owner
• Security

More:

We are partnered with Skipton Building Society for a permanent Principal Data Engineer opportunity based in Skipton, North Yorkshire, with a hybrid working pattern of three days per week in the office. This is an actively hiring role with a competitive salary and excellent benefits. We are looking for someone to help shape the organisations data architecture and standards, working closely with senior stakeholders in an Azure environment. Please note that sponsorship is not available for this role.

last updated 31 week of 2026