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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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