Principal Data Engineer | Digital Services

In this Principal Data Engineer role, you will lead the design and delivery of modern data solutions that support smarter decisions for Lancashire residents. You’ll guide a team within Digital Services, shaping the data foundations for the council’s digital transformation. You’ll tackle scalable cloud data architectures and end-to-end data engineering, partnering with architects and service teams to ensure governance and best practices. This is a hands-on leadership position that combines technical impact with strategic influence to improve public services.

• competitive salary
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• 26 days holiday (+8 bank holidays etc.)
• staff discount scheme with Vivup
• development and career opportunities
• hybrid working

• Lead and mentor a team of data and integration engineers
• Design and deliver scalable data platforms and pipelines
• Own end-to-end data engineering solutions
• Drive modern cloud data architecture using Azure technologies
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and service teams
• Champion best practice in data engineering and governance

• Extensive experience in data engineering and cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Strong experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data lakes
• Advanced SQL and data modelling skills
• Experience building APIs and integration services
• Proven leadership and mentoring capability

• leadership
• mentoring
• collaboration
• Azure
• ETL/ELT pipelines
• data lakes