Principal Data Engineer

About the role

As Principal Data Engineer, you will serve as the primary technical authority for the data engineering and platform architecture. You will own the data platform strategy and roadmap, leading the migration to a future-state platform on Snowflake and AWS. This role involves driving architectural standards, mentoring technical teams, and ensuring the scalability and governance of the data ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data Platform strategy and execute the multi-phased roadmap for migrating to the Future State Data Platform on Snowflake and AWS.
• Lead the architecture, design and development of scalable cloud data warehouse, lakehouse, streaming and analytics solutions.
• Define ingestion, transformation and orchestration patterns, naming and structural conventions, and the publication boundary between Product Engineering and Data Engineering.
• Identify, mitigate and resolve architectural bottlenecks, control weaknesses and technical debt across the data ecosystem.
• Own the Data as a Product Community of Practice and the standards that bind every Data Product.
• Champion data quality, lineage, observability and governance, ensuring checks, SLAs and alerting are expressed as code.
• Serve as a key member of the Data Architecture Review Board with formal decision rights over data architecture decisions.

Required skills

• Snowflake
• AWS
• Data Engineering
• Data Architecture
• Cloud Data Platforms
• dbt
• Apache Airflow
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• Data Governance
• Data Observability

Nice to have

• Apache Iceberg
• Amazon Redshift
• S3
• AI tooling

Benefits

• Benefit allowance
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Health assessments
• Digital GP access
• Life assurance
• Share schemes
• Financial coaching
• Annual learning allowance
• Electric car scheme

About the Company

Funding Circle is a fintech company on a mission to back small businesses by providing funding through a platform that uses data-driven insights. They combine the energy of a start-up with the stability of a public company, fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture.