Principal Data Engineer

Company: Brio Digital
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Location: West Yorkshire
Job Description:

Principal Data Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35

Principal Data Engineer650 per day | Outside IR35 | 3 Month Contract | Remote UK (Very occasional travel to Leeds if you can)

Brio Digital are working with a major UK organisation embarking on a strategic data transformation project to modernise a business-critical operational platform.

The project focuses on replacing manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with a scalable, cloud-native solution that will automate high-volume invoicing and operational workflows used across the business. This is a greenfield MVP with the potential to expand into a much larger programme of work.

You’ll join a cross-functional delivery team alongside Solution Architects, Technical Analysts, Project Managers, and Data specialists, taking ownership of the platform’s technical design and engineering.

Principal Data Engineer Responsibilities:* Design and build a cloud-native AWS data platform* Lead technical delivery of the MVP* Build scalable serverless data pipelines and APIs* Design secure, resilient event-driven architectures* Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Security and Data teams* Implement IaC, CI/CD and monitoring

Liaising with other teams is a key part of this position, so solid communication skills are a must.

Data Engineer Key Skills Required:* Enterprise AWS data platform experience* Python* Serverless AWS* Event-driven architecture* Terraform or CloudFormation* CI/CD and enterprise security

AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, IAM, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation, CloudWatch

Contract:650/day | Outside IR35 | Initial 3 months

Posted: July 20th, 2026