Principal Data Engineer (GCP)

Principal Data Engineer (GCP) Northwest - HybridUp 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, the Principal Data Engineer 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. Key Responsibilities of the Principal Data Engineer: 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 Key Requirements of the Principal Data Engineer: 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 ..... full job details .....