Principal Data Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Data Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: £58,000 - £87,000

Location: Eastleigh hybrid

Closing Date for applications: Friday 11th April 2025

Principal Data Engineer: We are seeking a dynamic Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and manage our data infrastructure and systems, supporting our organisation's data strategy. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, deep technical expertise, and a collaborative approach to ensure our data solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals.

As a Principal Data Engineer, this involves designing scalable solutions, optimising data systems, and collaborating with various teams to support data-driven decision-making. You will also mentor junior engineers, ensuring best practices and innovative techniques are implemented to enhance overall data infrastructure and strategy alignment with business goals.

Main Responsibilities include:

• Develop, design, and test data deliveries throughout the development lifecycle.
• Train and coach developers.
• Manage day-to-day data delivery tasks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align data solutions with organizational objectives.
• Design and implement scalable, high-performance data architectures.
• Define standards for data modeling, storage, and retrieval.
• Integrate data technologies, tools, and platforms.
• Oversee the development of data pipelines and workflows.
• Ensure data governance practices are followed.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging data technologies.
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop monitoring and alerting systems for data infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security regulations (e.g., GDPR).

Skills and experience required:

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in data engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
• Experience with Snowflake and Matillion.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale real-time and batch data pipelines.
• Experience with Azure cloud platform, and security concepts i.e. Keyvault, ACL’s and RBACs.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, SQL, or similar.
• Experience with big data processing frameworks and modern data architectures.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Leadership experience and the ability to align technical solutions with business goals.
• A degree or equivalent experience in analytics, informatics, computer science, programming, or business.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Principal Data Engineer role:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working: Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health: Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth: Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work: Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family: Maternity/parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them: Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Getting Around: Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Get some Tech: Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work: Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working.