Principal Data Engineer | Digital Services
LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Overview
As Principal Data Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of modern data solutions that enhance public services for Lancashire residents. You will steer a data and integration team within our Digital Services transformation, driving scalable platforms and cloud-native architecture. You’ll own end-to-end data engineering initiatives and champion governance and best practices. This is a leadership role focused on delivering measurable impact through data. You will work with cross-functional teams to shape the future of local government data capability.
Pay / Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Generous Local Government Pension Scheme and benefits
Responsibilities
- 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
Key requirements
- 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
Reference: WJ-799_21115988