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Principal/Staff Engineer (Data)

2 months, 1 week ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Data Architect
Software Development
AWS CI/CD Encryption 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 evangelise target architectures across transactional, analytical, and AI systems.
  • Lead the end-to-end data lifecycle, including OLTP schema design, migrations, OLAP governance, platform, and analytics.
  • Provide hands-on architectural guidance to Technical Leads on feature delivery, technical debt reduction, and architecture improvements.
  • Collaborate with Product Directors to translate product vision into deliverables aligned with commercial and engineering goals.
  • Architect data foundations and future infrastructure for AI-first products, including LLM orchestration, RAG, and real-time inference at scale.
  • Mentor and coach Technical Leads and Senior Engineers to raise engineering standards and support career growth.
  • Lead architectural reviews and ensure designs meet quality, reliability, security, and compliance standards.
  • Work with Staff Engineers and Principal Engineers to shape broader technology strategy across domains.
  • Partner with Engineering Management to grow teams and remove systemic bottlenecks.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience overseeing data architecture with a track record of 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience supporting the growth of engineers and technical leads in 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 tools such as AWS, Debezium, Git, and infrastructure as code.
  • Commercial knowledge of data security standards, encryption at rest and in transit, and relevant compliance laws.
  • Platform financial acumen, including 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.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Benefits

  • Salary of £100,000 - £120,000.
  • Remote working location.
  • 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays, made up of 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.
  • Salary sacrifice pension provided by Scottish Widows.
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave at 20 weeks full pay, and paternity leave at 6 weeks full pay.
  • Dedicated wellbeing support, including mindfulness, manager training, mental health first aid training, 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks.
  • Dedicated professional development budget for CPD, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Volunteer day each year for a charity of your choice.
  • Dog-friendly offices.

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