Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35

Principal Data Engineer
650 per day Outside IR35 3 Month Contract Remote UK (Very occasional travel to Leeds if you can)

Brio Digital are working with a major UK organisation embarking on a strategic data transformation project to modernise a business-critical operational platform.

The project focuses on replacing manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with a scalable, cloud-native solution that will automate high-volume invoicing and operational workflows used across the business. This is a greenfield MVP with the potential to expand into a much larger programme of work.

You'll join a cross-functional delivery team alongside Solution Architects, Technical Analysts, Project Managers, and Data specialists, taking ownership of the platform's technical design and engineering.

Principal Data Engineer Responsibilities:
Design and build a cloud-native AWS data platform
Lead technical delivery of the MVP
Build scalable serverless data pipelines and APIs
Design secure, resilient event-driven architectures
Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Security and Data teams
Implement IaC, CI/CD and monitoring

Liaising with other teams is a key part of this position, so solid communication skills are a must.

Data Engineer Key Skills Required:
Enterprise AWS data platform experience
Python
Serverless AWS
Event-driven architecture
Terraform or CloudFormation
CI/CD and enterprise security

AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, IAM, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation, CloudWatch

Contract:
650/day Outside IR35 Initial 3 months