Principal Data Engineer
Principal Data Engineer
£650 per day | Outside IR35 | 3 Month Contract | Remote UK (Very occasional travel to Leeds if you can)
Brio Digital are working with a major UK organisation embarking on a strategic data transformation project to modernise a business-critical operational platform.
The project focuses on replacing manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with a scalable, cloud-native solution that will automate high-volume invoicing and operational workflows used across the business. This is a greenfield MVP with the potential to expand into a much larger programme of work.
You'll join a cross-functional delivery team alongside Solution Architects, Technical Analysts, Project Managers, and Data specialists, taking ownership of the platform's technical design and engineering.
Principal Data Engineer Responsibilities:
* Design and build a cloud-native AWS data platform
* Lead technical delivery of the MVP
* Build scalable serverless data pipelines and APIs
* Design secure, resilient event-driven architectures
* Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Security and Data teams
* Implement IaC, CI/CD and monitoring
Liaising with other teams is a key part of this position, so solid communication skills are a must.
Data Engineer Key Skills Required:
* Enterprise AWS data platform experience
* Python
* Serverless AWS
* Event-driven architecture
* Terraform or CloudFormation
* CI/CD and enterprise security
AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, IAM, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation, CloudWatch
Contract:
£650/day | Outside IR35 | Initial 3 months