Principal Data Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £100k - £120k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Define and evangelise target architectures that bridge our transactional, analytical, and AI systems, ensuring our data remains a competitive advantage. • Be a leader for our end-to-end data lifecycle, from OLTP schema design and migrations to OLAP governance, platform and analytics. • Partner with Technical Leads to provide hands-on guidance supporting feature delivery, tech debt paydown, and architecture improvements. (Hands-on for this role means staying close to the details but not necessarily coding) • Collaborate with Product Directors to understand product vision and translate this into deliverables, aligning commercial and engineering goals. • Lead our shift to an AI-First way of working, architecting the data foundations to enable AI in our products and championing the latest approaches to help drive productivity gains • Architect the future infrastructure required for LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and real-time model inference at scale • Mentor and coach Technical Leads/Senior Engineers on architectural and engineering excellence, continually raising our bar and supporting career growth • Act as a role model for technical leadership — work with pace, be pragmatic, and stay laser focused on outcomes not output • Head up architectural reviews for your domain and ensure all designs meet Arbor’s quality, reliability, security and compliance standards. • Collaborate with Staff Engineers and Principal Engineers to shape Arbor’s broader technology strategy, working outside your domain as needed • Partner with Engineering Management to help grow teams, identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks, ensuring the success of our strategic goals

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience overseeing data architecture and a track record of delivering iterative outcomes across one or more OLAP domains • Strong understanding of data modelling techniques (Star, Medallion, etc) and distributed data systems within cloud-native environments (Snowflake, etc). • Experience in building and leveraging unstructured data across disparate systems to enable product development. • Examples of communication and influencing across technical and non-technical audiences to achieve positive outcomes. • An ability to support the growth of engineers and technical leads whilst still delivering value across distributed, cross-functional teams. • Demonstrable experience working in an ownership culture where quality, performance, observability, and security are core responsibilities for every engineer • An understanding and opinion on how AI-first engineering will change the data ecosystem and ways of working, ideally with worked examples • Examples of contributing to or leading technical communities of practice (e.g. chapters, guilds, architecture councils). • Practical knowledge of DataOps principles, including CI/CD for data and the orchestration of complex pipelines (e.g., AWS, Debezium, Git, Infra as Code). • Good commercial knowledge of data security standards, encryption at rest/transit, and relevant compliance laws. • Platform financial acumen - demonstrable experience of optimising SaaS platform spend, and the use of forecasting models.

🏖️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more! • 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay • 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life! • Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching) • All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc) • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year • Dog friendly offices!