Principal Data Engineer

London

Principal Data Engineer – Data Platforms / Data Lakes / Cloud / Python – 6-Month Contract – £625 p/d Inside IR35 – London

A global digital media organisation are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join their Data Foundation & Product Analytics team on an initial 12-month contract. This role sits at the forefront of enterprise data strategy, engineering, and platform governance — and will be instrumental in shaping the next generation of data infrastructure within the business. This is a hybrid role (London-based) with flexibility in a fast-paced, multi-cloud, multiplatform environment.

You will partner with the Enterprise Data Lake and Governance teams, architecting robust data pipelines and platforms across cloud and on-prem ecosystems, whilst establishing and enforcing standards for data modelling, ensuring consistency in data quality.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Architect and lead the development of large-scale, secure, and resilient data lakes and pipelines using Data Lakes and Data Mesh concepts.
  • Leading a small team including Developers, Data Scientists, Business Analysts
  • Extensive experience using Python, SQL and AWS
  • Define and enforce data architecture across mesh and domain-driven data products.
  • Implement and govern real-time/batch processing (Kafka, Spark, Glue).
  • Ensure strong metadata, cataloguing, and lineage practices across the enterprise.
  • Lead teams of engineers across global hubs, mentoring and supporting high standards.
  • Knowledge on data governance & security practices such as IAM, RBAC, Collibra, OpenMetadata, GDPR compliance
Posted 2025-07-15

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