Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer – Edinburgh (Hybrid – 2 / 3 days in the office)

£90,000 – £100,000 + Bonus + Excellent Pension

Meraki Talent are actively looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join their well-regarded global client who are investing heavily in technology. You will help deliver best practice data engineering across a full transformation project as they build out a greenfield data platform. This is a hands‑on engineering role as well as leading the team in the design and delivery of this new platform and data transformation.

This would be the perfect role for someone who is keen to remain hands on and in touch with the business, whilst engaging with senior stakeholders and personally being responsible for data strategy.

You will already be a seasoned Principal Engineer or at Lead Engineer level looking to take a step up in to a Principal role.

• Extensive experience in data architecture and data model design
• Desire to remain hands on; this is not a "hands off" role
• Solid knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure DF);
  Fabric would be handy but is not essential
• Grounding in SQL and Python
• Solid understanding of data engineering principles
• Financial services experience is handy but not essential
• Experience in leading, managing, developing other data professionals

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Data Infrastructure and Analytics, IT System Custom Software Development, Technology, Information and Media