7 of 7 Principal Data Engineer Jobs in the UK

CONTRACT DATA ENGINEER - eDV CLEARED NEW CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE WITHIN A LEADING NATIONAL SECURITY COMPANY FOR A DATA ENGINEER WITH eDV CLEARANCE Contract job opportunity for a Principal Data Engineer National Security client Daily rate up to £900 Central London based organisation in an easily accessible location To apply please call or email … see below) WHO WE ARE? We are recruiting a contract Data Engineer to work with a National Security SME in central London. Due to the nature of the work, you must hold enhanced DV Clearance. WE NEED THE DATA ENGINEER TO HAVE Current enhanced DV Security Clearance Experience with big data tools such as Hadoop … Scrum environment with tools such as Confluence/Jira Experience in design, development, test and integration of software Willingness to learn new technologies IT WOULD BE NICE FOR THE DATA ENGINEER TO HAVE Cloud based architectures Microservice architecture or server-less architecture Messaging/routing technologies such as Apache Nifi/RabbitMQ TO BE CONSIDERED Please either apply More ❯

CONTRACT DATA ENGINEER - eDV CLEARED NEW CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE WITHIN A LEADING NATIONAL SECURITY COMPANY FOR A DATA ENGINEER WITH eDV CLEARANCE Contract job opportunity for a Principal Data Engineer National Security client Daily rate up to £900 Central London based organisation in an easily accessible location To apply please call/or … email WHO WE ARE? We are recruiting a contract Data Engineer to work with a National Security SME in central London. Due to the nature of the work, you must hold enhanced DV Clearance. WE NEED THE DATA ENGINEER TO HAVE.... Current enhanced DV Security Clearance Experience with big data tools such as Hadoop, Cloudera … Scrum environment with tools such as Confluence/Jira Experience in design, development, test and integration of software Willingness to learn new technologies IT WOULD BE NICE FOR THE DATA ENGINEER TO HAVE.... Cloud based architectures Microservice architecture or server-less architecture Messaging/routing technologies such as Apache Nifi/RabbitMQ TO BE CONSIDERED.... Please either apply More ❯

Principal Data Engineer, Outside IR35, Fully Remote (UK ONLY) – Databricks & Streaming Expertise A leading consultancy is partnering with a major transport operator on a high-impact rail infrastructure programme. We’re seeking a Principal Data Engineer with deep expertise in Databricks, Spark Streaming, and Azure data services, particularly around streaming data sources … and real-time telemetry. Project Overview This role is part of a strategic initiative to modernise data infrastructure across the rail network. You’ll architect and optimise streaming data solutions that deliver operational insights and enable real-time decision-making. Key Skills Required Extensive experience with Databricks, especially in streaming data pipelines Strong hands-on experience with … Spark Streaming Solid background in Azure data services, including: Azure Synapse Azure Data Factory (ADF) Databricks Proven ability to work with streaming data sources and real-time telemetry Ideally some experience with Scala Ability to work with large-scale, fast-moving datasets in production environments Consultancy background with experience delivering complex data solutions for enterprise clients More ❯

collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach. About the Role We’re looking for a Principal Data Engineer to play a leading role in shaping and implementing our enterprise data architecture. This position is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise … with strong stakeholder engagement skills and a strategic mindset. You’ll help define and implement the data foundations that enable impactful AI and analytics solutions across our global engineering, consulting, and infrastructure business. You’ll work closely with cross-disciplinary teams, including data scientists, domain experts, and product managers, to design scalable, secure, and interoperable data systems. … You’ll also help establish our enterprise data ontology and lead a small team of data engineers to turn that vision into reality. What You’ll Do Enterprise data pipeline design&optimisation: Design and implement robust data pipelines to map both structured and unstructured data from diverse sources into the enterprise vector store, ensuring high More ❯

Your New Role We're looking for an experienced Principal Data Engineer to lead the development and evolution of a modern enterprise data platform. This strategic, hands-on position involves architecting and optimising scalable data pipelines to support advanced analytics, AI/ML initiatives, and actionable insights across the organisation.You'll take full ownership of … data. Acting as the technical authority, you'll define best practices, establish governance frameworks, and mentor engineers and analysts to maximise platform value.This is an opportunity to shape the data landscape and deliver solutions that empower decision-making and innovation. Key Responsibilities Platform Leadership: Design, implement, and manage Snowflake as the enterprise data hub, ensuring scalability, security, and … performance. Data Architecture & Strategy: Define frameworks for ingestion, replication, storage, and transformation across diverse data sources. Pipeline Development: Build efficient ELT pipelines using tools such as DBT and Python, integrating operational, financial, and network data. Performance Optimisation: Configure Snowflake warehouses and partitioning strategies for cost efficiency and speed. Governance & Compliance: Implement data quality, lineage, and access control More ❯

The postholder will utilise their exceptional technical skills and experience to provide the highest level of expert technical leadership in Data Engineering to the design, development, implementation and maintenance of integrations and data flows that connect operational systems, enabling the provision of highly capable data for analytics and business intelligence services across Police Scotland and the SPA. … The role will involve designing, developing and implementing innovative, effective, efficient solutions to complex data integration problems, through the novel application of relevant technologies and techniques, in order to deliver secure, responsive, legislatively compliant data services across the organisation. You will provide exceptional technical leadership to the data engineering team in relation to the control and management … of all data systems and services to ensure best performance, and alignment with business requirements. This will include, but not be limited to enterprise data archiving, data platforming, data ETL, data analytics and reporting technologies and associated infrastructure involved in the provision of all data services across the estate. Currently Police Scotland have guidance More ❯

Your New Role We're looking for an experienced Principal Data Engineer to lead the development and evolution of a modern enterprise data platform. This strategic, hands-on position involves architecting and optimising scalable data pipelines to support advanced analytics, AI/ML initiatives, and actionable insights across the organisation click apply for full job More ❯