Principal Data Engineer - #2190201

VIA MATCH LIMITED

Date: 4 hours ago

City: London

Salary: £90,000 - £125,000 / year

Contract type: Full time

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Car allowance: £6,000 per year

Location: London, WC2B 6SR

Working arrangement: Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week in the office

Employment type: Full-time

About the opportunity

Via is partnering with a leading UK homeware retailer looking for a Principal Data Engineer to lead the development of its cloud-first data platform.

You'll shape technical strategy, mentor senior engineers and build scalable data solutions supporting commercial, customer and operational decisions.

What you'll be doing

Lead the design and development of modern cloud data platforms and pipelines
Provide technical leadership, line management and mentoring to data engineers
Drive data architecture, engineering standards and best practices
Manage technical risks, delivery quality and platform performance
Optimise cloud infrastructure costs and data processing efficiency
Collaborate with product, engineering and data quality teams

What we're looking for

6–8+ years' experience in data engineering, including technical leadership
Strong experience with Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery (Snowflake preferred)
Hands-on AWS experience, including S3, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS or Firehose
Experience with dbt, Python or Node.js
Advanced SQL and data modelling skills
Experience with CI/CD, GitHub/GitLab and Terraform
Proven ability to mentor and manage technical teams

Experience with Power BI, ThoughtSpot, automated testing, cloud cost optimisation or vendor management would be advantageous.

Why apply?

£6,000 car allowance
Performance-related bonus
Hybrid working
Share save scheme
Additional employee benefits
Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale data engineering strategy

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