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Principal Data Engineer
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
£100K - £120K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Data Engineer
Arbor Education
• Define and evangelise target architectures that bridge our transactional, analytical, and AI systems, ensuring our data remains a competitive advantage. • Be a leader for our end-to-end data lifecycle, from OLTP schema design and migrations to OLAP governance, platform and analytics. • Partner with Technical Leads to provide hands-on guidance supporting feature delivery, tech debt paydown, and architecture improvements. (Hands-on for this role means staying close to the details but not necessarily coding) • Collaborate with Product Directors to understand product vision and translate this into deliverables, aligning commercial and engineering goals. • Lead our shift to an AI-First way of working, architecting the data foundations to enable AI in our products and championing the latest approaches to help drive productivity gains • Architect the future infrastructure required for LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and real-time model inference at scale • Mentor and coach Technical Leads/Senior Engineers on architectural and engineering excellence, continually raising our bar and supporting career growth • Act as a role model for technical leadership — work with pace, be pragmatic, and stay laser focused on outcomes not output • Head up architectural reviews for your domain and ensure all designs meet Arbor’s quality, reliability, security and compliance standards. • Collaborate with Staff Engineers and Principal Engineers to shape Arbor’s broader technology strategy, working outside your domain as needed • Partner with Engineering Management to help grow teams, identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks, ensuring the success of our strategic goals
Job Requirements
- Extensive experience overseeing data architecture and a track record of delivering iterative outcomes across one or more OLAP domains
- Strong understanding of data modelling techniques (Star, Medallion, etc) and distributed data systems within cloud-native environments (Snowflake, etc).
- Experience in building and leveraging unstructured data across disparate systems to enable product development.
- Examples of communication and influencing across technical and non-technical audiences to achieve positive outcomes.
- An ability to support the growth of engineers and technical leads whilst still delivering value across distributed, cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrable experience working in an ownership culture where quality, performance, observability, and security are core responsibilities for every engineer
- An understanding and opinion on how AI-first engineering will change the data ecosystem and ways of working, ideally with worked examples
- Examples of contributing to or leading technical communities of practice (e.g. chapters, guilds, architecture councils).
- Practical knowledge of DataOps principles, including CI/CD for data and the orchestration of complex pipelines (e.g., AWS, Debezium, Git, Infra as Code).
- Good commercial knowledge of data security standards, encryption at rest/transit, and relevant compliance laws.
- Platform financial acumen - demonstrable experience of optimising SaaS platform spend, and the use of forecasting models.
Benefits
- A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
- Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
- 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
- Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
- Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
- Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
- Dog friendly offices!
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