Principal Data Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Wed, Jul 01, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days
Job Summary
Serving as a senior technical leader, the full-time Principal Data Engineer will architect, develop, and govern enterprise-scale data platforms and analytics solutions while providing hands-on leadership across data engineering initiatives in a hybrid work environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and optimize enterprise-scale data pipelines and integration frameworks for analytics and operational workloads
- Lead data engineering initiatives, mentoring teams and establishing best practices for coding, CI/CD, and operational support
- Develop cloud-native data solutions using modern platforms and drive modernization initiatives involving hybrid-cloud architectures
Required qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or software engineering
- Expert-level experience with SQL, Python, Snowflake, and enterprise ETL/ELT frameworks
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native data engineering tools such as AWS Glue, Snowflake, and Kafka
- Proven experience leading large-scale enterprise data initiatives and mentoring engineering teams
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related fields
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