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Data Engineer

• Own the Data Platform architecture and strategy, defining the long-term target state and setting clear standards and guardrails to ensure scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Set the engineering bar by establishing best practices across data ingestion, streaming, transformation, modelling, CI/CD, orchestration, testing, observability, and governance.
• Act as the senior technical authority across data engineering, influencing architecture decisions and leading the Data Engineering Community of Practice to raise capability across the organisation.
• Champion “data as a product”, ensuring datasets and platform services are reliable, discoverable, reusable, and governed with clear ownership and service expectations.
• Drive strategic technical direction while remaining hands-on where it matters—reviewing designs, validating patterns, and guiding complex problem-solving without becoming a delivery bottleneck.

Principal Data Engineer