Principal Data Engineer

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More about PfP
Many organisations offer interesting work. Few offer the opportunity to improve lives  Places for People, we're creating thriving communities, providing homes, support, and opportunities that help people live healthier, happier, and more successful lives. For those who want their work to deliver meaningful impact beyond commercial outcomes, this is a chance to combine professional excellence with genuine social purpose.
More about the team
The Data and Platform Engineering team are the foundation for the Data Office function. Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining  PfP's  data platform we extract data from source, transform it into a usable format, load it into consumer models and  marts     and     build and manage the infrastructure to do all this work.
Data Engineering are transforming  the way  PfP  consumes data  . H  aving transitioned  from On Premise to  Google Cloud  we are  in the process of  building  a  leading-edge  Data Mesh platform  .  T  his is an exciting time to join  a growing business function  , with the opportunity to  make your mark  in the  architecture of the  platform and the development of the data engineering function  .
More about your?role?
The Principal Data Engineer is a senior technical leader who drives the engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices acrossproductdomain squads. This role is pivotal in enabling decentralised data ownership while ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability across thedatamesh.

Key responsibilities include:

Technical leadership across product domains
Architecture and design
Mentorship and capability building
Cross domaininteroperability
Governance and complianceenablement
Innovation and strategic influence
With asolidunderstanding of Google Cloud Platform,the Principal Data Engineer is responsible fortheensuring that thedesignand build ofalldataprocesseson the data platformare robust,performant,and compliant. This includes,data ingestion, data quality / integrity,transformation, security and encryption,batch management, monitoring, alertingandcost control.
In addition toleadingdata processing the Principal Data Engineer will help design and build the Data Meshincluding data modelling andthe processing of datafrom raw through the semantic layers.
The Principal Data Engineer willidentifyopportunities for automation and process improvement, coachandmentor data engineers, set coding standards and best practices, implement and document data integrity and quality checks, optimise queries, andfacilitatedata engineering collaboration across the team.
The Principal Data Engineer will work hand in glove with the Principal Data Platform Engineer and the Data Domain Architect to  ensure thatthe data platform anddata pipeline design is optimised and reliable within Google Cloud Platform, documenting the approach and explaining the solution to engineers and non-technical business users.
More about you?
You  will have  an extensive  cloud data engineering background  with deep  expertise  in distributed systems, cloud  platforms  and modern data stacks. You will have a strong understanding of domain driven design, data  mesh  and product thinking.  You will be an excellent communicator and collaborator across technical teams.
Having work  ed  on multiple projects with  in the cloud you  have hands on  experience in  many of the  tools and technologies  on offer, and  you embrace and lear  n  new  technologies  quickly.
You have  a very clear  view of what good looks like  and can formulate  plans to deliver a target state working closely with managers and engineers to deliver that vision.
You will have multiple  years' experience  working in GCP  wit  h  good knowledge across the platform and deep knowledge  in core  processing and orchestration…