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Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Preston, Lancashire💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-06-17 → 2026-08-10

Core

Lead the organization's data engineering capability, designing and evolving a cloud data platform with a focus on technical leadership and mentoring.

Role type

Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Builds

Cloud data platform, robust scalable data pipelines

Domain

Social enterprise, Cloud-native data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Data Engineering leadership, Cloud-native platform design, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Docker, dbt, Data Lake/Warehouse solutions, Advanced SQL, Python, Data Governance, Complex query optimization

Preferred skills

AWS, Azure

Technologies

Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Docker, dbt

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 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

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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