As a Principal Engineer - Data at Datacom, you will be responsible for architecting and building a modern, composable data platform on open standards, designing and building real-time streaming data pipelines, and creating data infrastructure that enables AI and agentic capabilities. You will work on a greenfield opportunity, rethinking our data platform from the ground up, and shaping the architecture, influencing platform-wide decisions, and building the data engineering capability within the team.
Requirements
- Deep experience with modern data engineering — data lakes or lakehouses, columnar storage formats, and layered transformation architectures.
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with analytical query engines.
- Experience building and operating real-time or near-real-time data pipelines using event streaming platforms.
- Familiarity with data transformation frameworks and an understanding of data contracts and schema governance.
- Proficiency with cloud data infrastructure (Azure preferred) — object storage, container orchestration, secrets management, and monitoring.
- Strong understanding of multi-tenant data security — tenant isolation, role-based access control, PII handling, and data sovereignty requirements.
- Experience designing data platforms that serve both operational and analytical workloads — you know the difference between ELT and ETL and when each pattern applies.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript for pipeline development and automation.
- Track record of making sound architectural decisions in ambiguous, greenfield environments.
- Excellent communication skills — you can translate complex data architecture decisions into language that product, security, and leadership stakeholders understand.
Benefits
- Social events
- Chill-out spaces
- Remote working
- Flexi-hours
- Professional development courses
