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Principal Data Engineer

8 hours, 13 minutes ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Data Engineer
Software Development
AWS CI/CD Git MLOps Snowflake
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Arbor

Arbor

Arbor is the leading cloud MIS provider in the UK, empowering schools and MATs to collaborate effectively, save time, and enhance pupil achievement through centralized data management and insightful analytics.

IT Services
51-250
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Description

  • Define and promote target architectures that connect transactional, analytical, and AI systems.
  • Lead the end-to-end data lifecycle, including OLTP schema design, migrations, OLAP governance, platform, and analytics.
  • Partner with Technical Leads to support feature delivery, tech debt reduction, and architecture improvements.
  • Collaborate with Product Directors to translate product vision into delivery plans aligned to commercial and engineering goals.
  • Drive Arbor’s shift to an AI-first way of working and build data foundations that enable AI capabilities in products.
  • Architect infrastructure for LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and real-time model inference at scale.
  • Mentor and coach Technical Leads and Senior Engineers to raise architectural and engineering standards and support career growth.
  • Lead architectural reviews and ensure designs meet quality, reliability, security, and compliance standards.
  • Work with Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Engineering Management to shape broader technology strategy and remove systemic bottlenecks.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience overseeing data architecture and delivering iterative outcomes across one or more OLAP domains.
  • Strong understanding of data modelling techniques such as Star and Medallion, and distributed data systems in cloud-native environments such as Snowflake.
  • Experience building and leveraging unstructured data across disparate systems to support product development.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to support the growth of engineers and technical leads while delivering value across distributed, cross-functional teams.
  • Experience working in an ownership culture where quality, performance, observability, and security are core responsibilities.
  • Understanding of how AI-first engineering will change the data ecosystem and ways of working, ideally with worked examples.
  • Experience contributing to or leading technical communities of practice such as chapters, guilds, or architecture councils.
  • Practical knowledge of DataOps principles, including CI/CD for data and orchestration of complex pipelines using AWS, Debezium, Git, and infrastructure as code.
  • Commercial knowledge of data security standards, encryption at rest and in transit, and relevant compliance laws.
  • Experience optimising SaaS platform spend and using forecasting models.
  • Bonus: AI/ML engineering and MLOps experience, including model deployment, serving, and monitoring.
  • Bonus: Experience with federated learning and/or privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).
  • Bonus: Direct experience with LLM Ops, including prompt engineering at scale and token cost optimisation.

Benefits

  • Remote working arrangement.
  • Salary of £100,000 to £120,000.
  • 32 days holiday, including 25 days annual leave plus 7 company-wide days over Easter, Summer, and Christmas.
  • Life assurance at 3x annual salary.
  • Private dental insurance with Bupa.
  • Comprehensive wellness support through AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and health checks.
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave of 20 weeks full pay, plus 6 weeks full pay paternity leave.
  • Dedicated professional development budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Volunteer day each year for a charity of your choice.
  • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching.
  • Dog-friendly offices.

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