Principal Data Engineer in Technology DATA Services

Leeds, United Kingdom;
London, United Kingdom

Principal Data Engineer, Technology Directorate

Permanent

Full Time

Flexible Working Options

This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:

• Job share
• Flexible start and end time to each day
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
• Compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team)
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)

A Day in the Role:

Your day starts with aligning across programmes and teams, ensuring the Bank’s data initiatives are moving in the right strategic direction. Apart from focusing on your individual tasks, you also concentrate on the bigger picture – identifying risks, guiding priorities, and shaping how teams work together.

Throughout the day, you act as a technical leader and strategic advisor, helping define how the organisation designs, governs, and uses data. You work with senior stakeholders across technology, governance, and business areas to ensure the platform remains trusted, scalable, efficient, and compliant.

A key part of your role is setting standards and enabling others: guiding engineering approaches, mentoring senior colleagues, and helping teams adopt consistent patterns that raise quality and accelerate delivery across the organisation.

You also contribute to cross‑Bank initiatives — from modernisation programmes to long‑term platform strategy — influencing decisions that shape how the Bank manages and uses data in the future.

By the end of the day, your impact is measured not in code delivered, but in clarity provided, decisions unblocked, teams strengthened, and strategic direction reinforced.

Opportunities in Leeds

We’re excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city we’ve been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location.

You’ll work collaboratively with London-based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect together in person.

Want to learn more? Discover what makes our Leeds office such a dynamic place to work by visiting our Leeds page for more details.

About Us

We are Data Services, our mission is to unlock the value of data by delivering high-quality, reliable, and secure data services that are accessible, understandable, and actionable! We continuously evolve our offerings, using modern cloud-based technologies, and foster strong partnerships to help our colleagues in the Bank navigate the complexities of a data-driven world and achieve their strategic objectives.

Job Description

The use of data within Central Banking is evolving. The combination of data being collected at scale and significant advances in data technology has created the need to expand our Data Engineering team in Data Services. We are building the Bank’s strategic cloud data platform to host products that solve real‑world problems while putting customers at the centre. The Principal Data Engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and supporting data pipelines on the Bank’s data platform.

You will lead innovative, data‑centric products and predictive analysis work while developing automated solutions that continuously improve data engineering across the Bank. Your technical leadership will establish a centre of excellence, ensure regulatory compliance, and deliver smart, customer‑focused designs.

Role Requirements

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable, cost‑effective, and secure distributed architectures using Azure services such as Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business and…