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Principal Data Engineer

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Taunton
5 months ago
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Principal Data Engineer: Lead Data Platforms (Hybrid)

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Base pay range Your new role
As Principal Data Engineer, you'll join a collaborative and agile data engineering team where you'll take responsibility for all aspects of data engineering while working with peers to ensure the efficient and sustainable function of the team. You'll be working in a team that organises as generalists to encourage sharing of projects, knowledge, and technical skills. The team maintains a large codebase of cloud-deployed, serverless data pipelines written to high software engineering standards. Your responsibilities will include:
Working with stakeholders and delivery managers to build and deliver data services
Collaborating with peers to build and maintain effective data engineering capability
Producing roadmaps and architecting data flows to contribute to engineering solutions
Ensuring reliability and performance of data engineering pipelines
Modelling and building data storage solutions for various data types
Leading on code quality and documentation standards
Sharing technical expertise with members of the data engineering team
Providing line management and mentoring to junior team members, helping prioritise their workload

What you'll need to succeed
Proven track record of successfully delivering multiple resilient and scalable data pipelines
Experience working with stakeholders to understand and translate requirements
Proficiency with cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP
Excellent programming ability, ideally in Python, along with programming best practices
Experience with tools and techniques such as SQL, various database types, data formats, and data modelling
Demonstrable experience of pipeline logging, usage tracking, and cost monitoring
Previous experience deploying analytical/machine learning tools for users
Experience leading a team or multiple projects and supporting team members in workload prioritisation and development

What you need to do now
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Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Employment type Temporary
Job function Job function Information Technology
Industries Data Infrastructure and Analytics
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