National AI Awards 2025Discover AI's trailblazers! Join us to celebrate innovation and nominate industry leaders.

Nominate & Attend

Principal Data Engineer, Consulting

Anson McCade
Birmingham
2 days ago
Create job alert

Principal Data Engineer – Consulting | £90K–£105K | London / Leeds / Bristol


Our client, a global leader in digital transformation consulting, is hiring aPrincipal Data Engineerto lead the design and delivery of advanced cloud-native data solutions. Based inLondon, Leeds, or Bristol, this is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects that solve complex data challenges across enterprise environments.


💼Salary: £90,000 – £105,000

📍Location: London, Leeds, or Bristol

  • Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

🛡️Must be eligible for SC (Security Check) clearance


🧠 The Role

As aPrincipal Data Engineer, you’ll propose and implement solutions using a range of AWS infrastructure. Working within a multidisciplinary consulting team, you’ll collaborate directly with clients to shape strategy, drive delivery, and guide internal engineering standards.


Your responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain large-scale data lakes and ETL pipelines usingAWS S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, DynamoDB, and Matillion
  • Translate client requirements into scalable and secure data architectures
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD deployment practices
  • Process structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, Parquet, CSV)
  • Maintain metadata, build data dictionaries, and ensure governance is embedded by design
  • Work across industries in fast-paced, high-value engagements


ThisPrincipal Data Engineerwill bring:

  • Extensive experience withETL/ELT pipelinesand data transformation patterns
  • Proficiency inAWS cloud services, particularlyRedshift, Glue, Matillion, and S3
  • Strong command of data quality, data lineage, and metadata practices
  • Fluency in database technologies (both relational and NoSQL)
  • Experience with Linux environments and data visualisation tools (e.g.Tableau, QuickSight, Looker)


Bonus points for:

  • Familiarity withHadoop, Spark, or MapReduce
  • Exposure todata APIsand microservice-based architectures
  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate, Big Data Specialty)
  • Experience or interest inmachine learning data pipelines


🚀 Why Join?

As aPrincipal Data Engineer, you’ll:

  • Lead the architecture of cloud-first data ecosystems for top-tier clients
  • Be part of a supportive, knowledge-sharing engineering team
  • Enjoy hands-on influence across the full data lifecycle—from ingestion to insight
  • Contribute to transformative programs in sectors such as financial services, retail, and government
  • Access a clear path to leadership and continuous learning across cloud and consulting domains


Ready to lead next-generation data platforms?

If you’re eligible forSC clearance, and want to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and strategy—thisPrincipal Data Engineerrole is your next step.


Apply today and build what’s next.

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Principal Data Engineer, Consulting

Principal Data Engineer, Consulting

Principal Data Engineer, Consulting

Principal Data Engineer, Consulting

Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer, Consulting

National AI Awards 2025

Subscribe to Future Tech Insights for the latest jobs & insights, direct to your inbox.

By subscribing, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service.

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Data Science Jobs Salary Calculator 2025: Find Out What You Should Earn in the UK

Why last year’s pay survey is already out of date for UK data scientists “Am I being paid enough?” Every data professional eventually asks that question—often after a teammate reveals a hefty counter‑offer, a recruiter shares a six‑figure opening, or a headline trumpets the latest multimillion‑pound AI investment. Yet salary guides published even twelve months ago belong in a museum. Generative‑AI hype re‑priced Machine‑Learning Engineer roles, LLM fine‑tuning turned Prompt Engineering into a genuine career path, & fresh regulation forced companies to hire Responsible‑AI Officers on senior‑scientist money. To cut through the noise, DataScience‑Jobs.co.uk distilled a transparent, three‑factor formula. Insert your role, your region, & your seniority, and you’ll get a realistic 2025 salary benchmark—no stale averages, no vague ranges. This article walks you through the formula, examines the forces pushing data‑science pay ever higher, and offers five concrete actions to boost your market value within ninety days.

How to Present Data Science Solutions to Non-Technical Audiences: A Public Speaking Guide for Job Seekers

The ability to communicate clearly is now just as important as knowing how to build a predictive model or fine-tune a neural network. In fact, many UK data science job interviews are now designed to test your ability to explain your work to non-technical audiences—not just your technical competence. Whether you’re applying for your first data science role or moving into a lead or consultancy position, this guide will show you how to structure your presentation, simplify technical content, design effective visuals, and confidently answer stakeholder questions.

Data Science Jobs UK 2025: 50 Companies Hiring Now

Bookmark this guide—refreshed every quarter—so you always know who’s really expanding their data‑science teams. Budgets for predictive analytics, GenAI pilots & real‑time decision engines keep climbing in 2025. The UK’s National AI Strategy, tax relief for R&D & a sharp rise in cloud adoption mean employers need applied scientists, ML engineers, experiment designers, causal‑inference specialists & analytics leaders—right now. Below you’ll find 50 organisations that have advertised UK‑based data‑science vacancies or announced head‑count growth during the past eight weeks. They’re grouped into five quick‑scan categories so you can jump straight to the kind of employer—& culture—that suits you. For every company you’ll see: Main UK hub Example live or recent vacancy Why it’s worth a look (tech stack, mission, culture) Search any employer on DataScience‑Jobs.co.uk to view current ads, or set up a free alert so fresh openings land straight in your inbox.