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Principal Data Engineer
Breedon Group plc
England, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft FabricAzure DatabricksAzure Data FactoryAzure Data Lake StorageDelta Lake
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide Technical Leadership and Direction: Act as the senior technical authority for data engineering, providing guidance on architecture, technology selection, engineering practices and solution quality across the organisation.
- Define Engineering Standards and Best Practices : Establish and govern engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, coding practices and delivery frameworks to drive consistency, scalability and maintainability.
- Lead Architecture and Solution Design: Lead technical design reviews, data modelling decisions and architecture assurance activities to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, supportable and aligned to strategic objectives.
- Deliver Modern Data Engineering Solutions: Design, build and optimise cloud-based data platforms and data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and related technologies to support enterprise reporting, analytics and operational workloads.
- Ensure Quality, Security and Operational Excellence: Establish robust testing, data quality, monitoring, observability, security and deployment practices to ensure reliable, well-governed and highly available data services.
- Drive Continuous Improvement and Technical Debt Reduction: Lead initiatives to modernise legacy solutions, reduce technical debt, improve platform reliability, optimise performance and cloud costs, and embed engineering practices that improve long-term maintainability and operational efficiency.
- Drive Innovation and Technical Strategy: Evaluate emerging technologies, lead technical discovery and proof-of-concept activities, and contribute to the development of the organisation's data strategy, architecture roadmap and future technology direction.
- Develop Engineering Capability and Lead Delivery: Lead the delivery of complex technical initiatives while mentoring and coaching engineers, promoting knowledge sharing, strengthening technical capability, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and professional growth.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Experience of designing and implementing an Azure analytical platform including Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, PySpark, SQL, Python, and Azure DevOps.
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