Summary: As a Principal Data Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of data infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers. Your role involves making critical technical decisions, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and optimizing team structure for maximum impact. You will drive excellence in data engineering practices and foster a collaborative environment. This position is remote and offers a contract of 6 months with the possibility of extension.

Key Responsibilities:

• Make critical technical design decisions for data infrastructure.
• Mentor and apprentice data engineers, ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Influence team structure to optimize delivery and impact.
• Ensure quality of deliverables, maintaining high standards of reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Drive the team towards excellence in data engineering.

Key Skills:

• 8+ years of professional experience as a data engineer, focusing on cloud-based data engineering using AWS services.
• Experience leading engineering teams.
• Creation of enterprise-grade data solutions at scale.
• Expertise in Python development.
• Fluency in data architecture and engineering patterns.
• Experience with relational databases and vector stores.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies and AWS ECS.
• Practicing high coding standards with clean code and testing automation.
• Driven, execution-oriented, and able to work independently in fast-paced environments.
• Interest in Generative AI and ML topics.
• Kedro framework experience is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT