Principal Data Strategist (m/f/d)
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Salary: Up to £125,000 per year
Car allowance: £6,000 per year
Bonus: Up to 25% discretionary bonus
Location: London or Leicester
Working arrangement: Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office
Start date: Flexible
Full-time | Permanent About the opportunity Via is partnering with a major UK consumer business looking for a Principal Data Engineer to provide technical and people leadership across its data engineering capability.
This is a senior role combining data architecture, engineering leadership, people development and hands-on technical problem solving.
You'll act as a key technical authority for a modern cloud-first data platform, helping shape its architecture while ensuring the business can deliver trusted, scalable and cost-effective data products.
The environment includes Snowflake, AWS and dbt, and you'll work closely with Data Engineering, Product, Enterprise Architecture and Technology leadership. What you'll be doing
Provide technical leadership across the data engineering function
Shape the architecture and evolution of a modern cloud-first enterprise data platform
Design scalable, reliable and cost-effective data solutions
Lead technical solution design across complex data initiatives
Work extensively with Snowflake, AWS and dbt
Guide the development of data pipelines and enterprise data products
Establish strong data modelling and engineering standards
Work across conceptual, logical and physical data modelling
Ensure technical solutions align with wider data and technology strategy
Identify and address technical debt across core data platforms
Monitor cloud and platform consumption and identify opportunities to optimise costs
Own technical risks and issues across projects and programmes
Support the resolution of service and production issues across the data ecosystem
Provide estimates and technical input into engineering and product planning
Mentor and develop Lead Data Engineers
Support the development of the wider Data Engineering team
Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, performance and career development
Work closely with Product, Architecture and Technology teams
Evaluate emerging technologies and introduce relevant engineering practices
What we're looking for
Significant experience in senior or principal-level data engineering
Strong technical leadership experience
Extensive experience designing and developing modern cloud data platforms
Strong Snowflake experience, or significant experience with comparable modern cloud data platforms
Strong AWS experience
Experience with services such as S3, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis or Firehose
Strong dbt experience
Excellent SQL skills
Programming experience with Python, Node or another relevant language
Extensive data modelling experience
Strong understanding of dimensional modelling
Experience designing scalable data pipelines and data products
Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally Terraform
Good understanding of CI/CD and modern engineering practices
Experience with GitHub, GitLab or similar development tooling
Strong understanding of cloud architecture and platform design
Experience managing technical risk and making complex engineering decisions
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Experience coaching and mentoring technical colleagues
Experience developing senior engineers and engineering capability
Useful additional experience
Power BI or ThoughtSpot
Automated testing and data quality practices
Cloud consumption and cost optimisation
Vendor management
Enterprise-scale data environments
Technical recruitment and talent development
You don't need experience with every individual technology listed. We're particularly interested in experienced Data Engineering leaders who combine strong cloud architecture and modern data stack knowledge with the ability to develop engineers and influence technical strategy. Why apply?
Salary up to £125,000
£6,000 annual car allowance
Up to 25% discretionary bonus
ShareSave scheme
Hybrid working with 2 days per week in London or Leicester
Private healthcare
Pension
Annual leave
Principal-level technical ownership and influence
Work with Snowflake, AWS and dbt at enterprise scale
Shape the future architecture of a major cloud data platform
Significant technical leadership responsibility
Opportunity to develop and mentor experienced Data Engineers
Strong learning and development opportunities
With the £6,000 car allowance and maximum discretionary bonus, the total potential annual cash package can exceed £160,000, alongside the ShareSave scheme and wider benefits.
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