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: Wednesday 19th February
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:
* Deliver the technical vision and roadmap for the organisation’s data infrastructure.
* Collaborate with stakeholders to align data solutions with business objectives.
* Mentor engineers, fostering skill development and best practices.
* Design and implement scalable, high-performance data architectures.
* Define standards for data modelling, storage, and retrieval.
* Integrate data technologies, tools, and platforms (e.g., cloud platforms, databases, ETL/ELT pipelines).
* Oversee the development of data pipelines and workflows for ingesting, transforming, and delivering data.
* Optimize and maintain data systems, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.
* Implement data governance practices, including data quality, lineage, and compliance.
* Work closely with cross-functional teams (engineering, analytics, product) to identify data needs and deliver solutions.
Skills and experience required:
* Minimum of 8+ years in data engineering or related roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or principal capacity.
* Experience with Snowflake and Matillion preferred.
* 3+ years of experience in hands-on build of large scale real-time and/or batch data pipelines.
* Experience with Big Data/Hadoop/NoSQL, ETL tools, data lake and data warehouse creation a distinct advantage.
* Proven track record of delivering large-scale, mission-critical data solutions.
* Experience in following a software development lifecycle, including requirements capture, design, build and testing.
* Understanding big data concepts in processing data in real-time and in batch, with understanding of Data Lakes and Data Warehouses.
* Proficiency in Python, Java, SQL, or similar languages.
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 etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also 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/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant 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 Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability 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 with a disability 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, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
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