Principal Data Engineer

About this role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Data Engineer based in United States.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of enterprise data platforms by designing scalable solutions that power analytics, machine learning, and critical business operations.


You will provide technical leadership across data engineering initiatives, driving architecture decisions and establishing best practices for reliable, high-performance systems.


Working closely with engineering, product, operations, and business teams, you will translate complex requirements into impactful data solutions.


The position combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic influence, enabling better decision-making through trusted and accessible data.


You will help build modern cloud-based data ecosystems while improving data quality, governance, security, and operational efficiency.


This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced data engineering leader who enjoys solving complex challenges and mentoring technical teams.


Accountabilities
The Principal Data Engineer will lead the architecture, development, and optimization of advanced data platforms while ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business objectives. Key responsibilities include:

• Design and implement end-to-end data architectures, frameworks, and pipelines supporting large-scale ingestion, processing, transformation, reporting, and analytics.
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT workflows, distributed data processing systems, and data models to support business intelligence and advanced analytics.
• Develop cloud-native data solutions using technologies such as Python, SQL, dbt, AWS Glue, DMS, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Snowflake, and related platforms.
• Establish engineering best practices around data quality, governance, lineage, security, privacy, performance, and r...