Principal Data Engineer

Company: Harrington Starr
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Location: London
Job Description:

We’re looking for a Principal Data Engineer to help define and scale engineering practices across a modern cloud data platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on platform reliability, automation, CI/CD, testing, observability, and data quality. You’ll work across engineering teams to improve how data products are built, deployed, and operated in production while driving engineering standards across a large-scale data ecosystem.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design and implement CI/CD frameworks for data pipelines and analytics workloads
  • Drive platform reliability, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence
  • Establish automated testing and deployment standards
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and engineering automation practices
  • Improve scalability, resilience, and production readiness across data platforms
  • Define reusable frameworks, tooling, and engineering patterns
  • Champion software engineering best practices across data and AI workloads
  • Act as a senior technical leader influencing architecture and platform strategy

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong experience building and operating modern cloud data platforms
  • Expertise in Python and SQL
  • Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and platform automation
  • Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, testing, and reliability engineering
  • Experience working with large-scale data processing and analytics environments
  • Ability to operate as both a hands-on engineer and technical leader

Why Apply?

  • Principal-level ownership and influence
  • Opportunity to shape engineering standards and platform strategy
  • Complex platform engineering challenges at scale
  • Modern data and AI environment
  • High-impact role with significant technical autonomy

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Posted: June 11th, 2026