Principal Data Engineer
Contract Summary Box:
Location: Remote
Contract Length: 3 months
Day Rate / Pay: 475.0
IR35 Status: Outside IR35
Start Date: 21/10/2026
The Principal Data Engineer role focuses on designing, delivering, and operating large-scale cloud-native data platforms and enterprise AWS solutions. This position involves leading complex technical initiatives, translating business needs into scalable and secure solutions within a cloud environment.
Key Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience designing, delivering and operating cloud-native data platforms and AWS solutions
- Deep expertise across AWS services including Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, IAM, Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation and CloudWatch
- Experience designing serverless applications, APIs, data pipelines and analytics platforms on AWS
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed systems and cloud-native application development
- Advanced Python with extensive experience supporting cloud-native solutions supported by testing, CI/CD, and software engineering practices
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation
- Strong understanding of cloud security, governance and operational best practices
- Experience delivering highly available, resilient and production-ready platforms with monitoring, governance and operational support
Nice to Have
- Terraform or CloudFormation experience
- Experience with enterprise-scale data platforms and analytics solutions
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring and cloud cost optimisation
- Experience working in regulated or highly governed environments
Role Overview
The Principal Data Engineer leads the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise-scale, cloud-native data platforms on AWS, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and cost-effective. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the role ensures the delivery of resilient and operational data solutions that meet business and technical standards. The engineer will produce detailed low-level designs and guide the technical delivery across complex initiatives, supporting operational resilience, security, and governance.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate enterprise-scale cloud-native data platforms and AWS solutions
- Deliver secure, scalable, resilient serverless architectures on AWS
- Engineer data ingestion, processing, storage and consumption platforms
- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex data and cloud projects
- Produce detailed Low-Level Designs aligned with High-Level Designs from Solution Architects
- Collaborate with security, engineering, and stakeholder teams to deliver solutions
- Provision and manage AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated deployment and testing
- Implement AWS security best practices including IAM, encryption, secrets management, monitoring and auditing
- Support operational resilience, governance, and compliance through platform design
- Drive cloud cost optimisation and operational efficiency
If you have the required skills and availability, please apply with an updated CV.
