Principal Data Engineer; GCP

Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Northwest - Hybrid
Up to £100,000

VIQU are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join a leading social enterprise that reinvests profits to create thriving, sustainable communities. Following a full transition to a 100% cloud‑based data platform, this role will play a key part in shaping and leading the organisation's data engineering capability, with a strong focus on technical leadership, platform design and mentoring engineers within a Google Cloud environment.

• 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

• Extensive experience in Data Engineering, with time spent in a Lead or Principal role
• Strong background working in a cloud‑native data platform
• Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred, with consideration for AWS or Azure alongside some GCP
• Experience with Terraform, Docker and dbt
• Strong expertise in Data Lake / Data Warehouse solutions
• Advanced SQL and Python skills
• Proven experience optimising complex queries
• Strong understanding of Data Governance, including lineage, data legislation and PII
• Experience working within Agile / Scrum and the SDLC
• Willingness to undergo a DBS check

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Katie Dark via the VIQU IT website.

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