Principal Data Engineer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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ENSEK

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

⚡ Energy

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

💰 Non Equity Assistance on 2019-03

Energy • SaaS • Fintech

ENSEK is a cloud-native retail energy platform designed for both domestic and business customers. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for various aspects of energy management including billing, onboarding, financial accounting, customer management, and market communications. ENSEK aims to streamline operations for energy suppliers, thereby enhancing their ability to navigate regulatory complexities and consumer demands, all while focusing on digital transformation and sustainability in the energy sector.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision, architecture and roadmap for ENSEK's data ecosystem • Support ENSEK's domain-driven architecture and ongoing platform decomposition • Lead the introduction of a pragmatic data mesh approach • Enable teams to produce, govern and consume data products consistently across the organisation • Drive architectural decisions through technical leadership and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) • Establish standards for event-driven data architectures, schema governance, data lifecycle management and data product ownership • Shape ENSEK's self-service data platform by creating golden paths for engineering teams • Define and implement standards for CI/CD, data quality, observability, lineage, metadata management and cost attribution • Design secure and scalable mechanisms for sharing data with customers and partners through APIs, event streams, open table formats and AI-driven access patterns • Partner with engineering, product and governance stakeholders to embed data ownership, security, classification and compliance into platform design • Provide hands-on technical leadership on complex engineering challenges • Mentor and develop Staff and Senior Engineers • Help grow a strong data engineering community of practice across ENSEK

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience in Data Engineering with a strong track record of leading architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams or domains • Experience operating at Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer or equivalent technical leadership level • Deep expertise designing and operating modern data platforms and lakehouse architectures on a major cloud provider, ideally AWS • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including programming, distributed systems and SQL • Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, event streaming platforms and schema governance technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Schema Registry and Avro • Experience implementing data mesh, data product or domain-oriented data ownership models • Strong knowledge of data contracts, metadata management, cataloguing, data lineage and data quality frameworks • Experience building and governing data platforms that balance self-service capabilities with effective controls and standards • Strong understanding of data security, privacy, classification and access management principles • Experience sharing data externally through open and portable technologies such as Apache Iceberg or similar open table formats • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders • Nice to have: Experience supporting Machine Learning and AI platforms • Nice to have: Experience with MLOps and AI-driven product development • Nice to have: Knowledge of the energy industry or other highly regulated sectors • Nice to have: Experience building platforms that support agentic AI, MCP servers or emerging AI consumption patterns

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays • Option to buy or sell 5 extra annual leave days per year • Vitality Health Insurance, including private healthcare, virtual GP access, mental‑health support and wellbeing perks • 50% off gym memberships (Virgin Active, Nuffield, PureGym) • Pension with 5% matched contribution • Regular team‑wide and company‑wide events • 2 volunteering days per year to give back • Remote‑first working environment with offices in London and Nottingham

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