Principal Data Engineer in London

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Job Description
Principal Data EngineerLocation: RemoteSalary: Up to £95,000Sponsorship: Not available
VIQU have partnered with a nationally recognised organisation that has recently completed a full migration from on-premise infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and is now building a modern, domain-oriented Data Mesh. This is a critical leadership hire as they continue to scale their cloud data platform and embed engineering excellence across multiple product domains.
This is not a step-up role. They will only consider candidates with proven Principal or Lead-level experience, including clear ownership of engineers, standards, and cross-domain architectural direction.
The Role
As Principal Data Engineer, you will be the senior technical authority across data product squads, driving strategy, architecture, and engineering best practice.
Key responsibilities include:
Providing visible, hands-on technical leadership across multiple domain teams
Defining how projects are approached and ensuring delivery standards are upheld
Designing and governing scalable pipelines using BigQuery, Dataflow, Datastream, Data Fusion, Dataproc and Cloud Composer (Airflow)
Leading best practice across dbt, Terraform, Docker and CI/CD
Driving Data Mesh adoption, domain ownership, and interoperable data products
Setting modelling standards across raw, curated and semantic layers
Embedding governance covering lineage, MDM, data quality, PII and compliance
Mentoring and challenging senior engineers to maintain high standards
You will work closely with Architects and Platform Engineering to ensure performance, cost control, security and scalability across the GCP estate.
What They Need
10+ years in Data Engineering
Clear, demonstrable experience leading engineers at Lead/Principal level
Deep, hands-on GCP experience (this is essential)
Strong SQL and Python expertise
Experience building cloud- data platforms end-to-end
Strong background in Data Lake / Warehouse architecture
Proven experience implementing CI/CD and infrastructure as code
Confidence to challenge stakeholders and influence technical direction
Candidates without strong, proven leadership experience in enterprise-scale environments will not be considered.
Why Join?
You’ll be joining at a pivotal stage in the evolution of a 100% cloud- platform. The foundations are in place, but the Data Mesh journey is still being shaped. This is a genuine opportunity to influence architecture, standards, and the long-term engineering strategy — fully remote, with executive backing and real scope for impact.
Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or contact Aaron Chiverton on the VIQU website. Know someone great? Refer them and receive up to £1,000 if successful (terms apply). For more exciting roles and opportunities, follow us on LinkedIn @VIQU IT Recruitment.
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Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineer, Data, Engineering

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