VIA MATCH LIMITED
Principal Data Engineer
Principal Data Engineer at VIA MATCH LIMITED, based in London, South East England, paying £90,000 - £125,000 per annum. This is a permanent role with hybrid working.
- Pay
- £90,000 - £125,000 per annum
- Hours and contract
- Permanent · Hybrid
- Location
- London, South East England
- Closing date
- Sector
- Data Analyst
About 77% above the going rate for data analyst
Reference 57540170
About the role
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Car allowance: £6,000 per year
Location: London, WC2B 6SR
Working arrangement: Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week in the office
Employment type: Full-time
About the opportunityVia is partnering with a leading UK homeware retailer looking for a Principal Data Engineer to lead the development of its cloud-first data platform.
You'll shape technical strategy, mentor senior engineers and build scalable data solutions supporting commercial, customer and operational decisions.
What you'll be doing- Lead the design and development of modern cloud data platforms and pipelines
- Provide technical leadership, line management and mentoring to data engineers
- Drive data architecture, engineering standards and best practices
- Manage technical risks, delivery quality and platform performance
- Optimise cloud infrastructure costs and data processing efficiency
- Collaborate with product, engineering and data quality teams
- 6–8+ years' experience in data engineering, including technical leadership
- Strong experience with Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery (Snowflake preferred)
- Hands-on AWS experience, including S3, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS or Firehose
- Experience with dbt, Python or Node.js
- Advanced SQL and data modelling skills
- Experience with CI/CD, GitHub/GitLab and Terraform
- Proven ability to mentor and manage technical teams
Experience with Power BI, ThoughtSpot, automated testing, cloud cost optimisation or vendor management would be advantageous.
Why apply?- £6,000 car allowance
- Performance-related bonus
- Hybrid working
- Share save scheme
- Additional employee benefits
- Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale data engineering strategy
Reference: 57540170 · Posted 45 minutes ago · Closes 18 Dec 2026 · Listed via VIA MATCH LIMITED
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