Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer

£90,000-£100,000

️ AWS, Python, Snowflake, Kafka/Kinesis

Brighton, once a week in office

️ Private equity backed B2B SaaS

I am working with rapidly scaling b2b SaaS company, backed by private equity, who are looking for a Principal Data Engineer with a passion for designing and building high-quality data pipelines to power cutting-edge genAI products.

What you'll be doing...

Supported by a dynamic data team consisting of other data engineers, data scientists, and ML and analytics engineers, you will be engaged in the following:

• You will be the primary data engineering subject matter expert and shape the data engineering roadmap.
• You will design and build the data architecture.
• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement robust, scalable solutions.
• You will design, build, maintain and upgrade data pipelines and self-service tooling to provide clean, efficient results.
• You will promote data governance through documentation, observability and controls.
• You will perform code reviews.
• You will promote the adoption of tools and best practices across the team.

What they are looking for...

The ideal candidate will have a strong background and expertise in real-time data engineering and cloud technologies, and be able to apply this expertise to business problems to generate value.

As an individual contributor, you will be confident in taking a project brief and drawing out requirements, designing and building consensus around architectural plans.

Tech stack: AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Python, Kafka/Kinesis and Airflow.

Essential skills:

• Great Python skills.
• Previous experience with real-time data streaming platforms such as Kafka/Kinesis/Confluent etc.
• Experience handling and validating real-time data.
• Experience with stream processing frameworks.
• Experience mentoring team members and colleagues.

What's in it for you...

• Employee Assistance Programme (confidential counselling)
• Medicash healthcare scheme (reclaim costs for dental, physiotherapy, osteopathy and optical care)
• easitBrighton travel scheme (discounted public transport options)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Insurance scheme
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Contributory pension scheme

Diversity is incredibly important to this company. Research shows how people from marginalised groups are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every requirement. However, these accountabilities are a guide and, if you feel like this role could be for you and you don’t meet every criteria, please do apply.

If you are interested in finding out more, please apply or contact me directly!

jordanf@burnssheehan.co.uk

Principal Data Engineer

£90,000-£100,000

️ AWS, Python, Snowflake, Kafka/Kinesis

Brighton, once a week in office

️ Private equity backed B2B SaaS