Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Principal Data Engineer – Hybrid (London/Winchester) We’re seeking a hands-on Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-scale, cloud-native data platforms that power analytics, reporting, and real-time decision-making.
This is a strategic technical leadership role where you’ll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end solutions across a modern AWS/Databricks stack.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design of scalable, secure data architectures on AWS.
- Build and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming data.
- Deploy and manage Apache Spark jobs on Databricks and Delta Lake.
- Write production-grade Python and SQL for large-scale data transformations.
- Drive data quality, governance, and automation through CI/CD and IaC.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor and guide data engineering teams.
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience in senior/principal data engineering roles.
- Expertise in AWS, Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
- Strong background in cloud-native data platforms, real-time processing, and data lakes.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Airflow, Kafka, Docker, GitLab CI/CD.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.
What’s on offer
- £84000 salary + 10% bonus
- 6% pension contribution
- Private medical & flexible benefits package
- 25 days annual leave (plus buy/sell options)
- Hybrid working – travel to London or Winchester once/twice per week
Join a company at the forefront of media, connectivity, and smart technology , where your work directly powers millions of daily connections across the UK.
About Stott and May
In late 2009, Stott and May was founded on the belief that hiring managers should never have to make the choice between time to hire and quality of candidate. We noticed a gap in the market for a search offering that can combine the speed of contingent recruitment with a high value, high touch, insightful service more commonly found in the executive search space. A talent solution that's helpful, engaging, collaborative and stacked full of value-add. Built with the flexibility to provide our partners with a choice of best practice features that can be packaged to meet their unique hiring challenges.
We've been building our team alongside the technical teams of some of the worlds innovative businesses. Our 130 employees across London, Reading, Los Angeles and New York are cultivating specialist talent communities every day to deliver the connections to drive growth. It's time to build better, more personalised, recruitment campaigns that deliver talent on time.
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Principal Data Engineer – Hybrid (London/Winchester) We’re seeking a hands-on Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-scale, cloud-native data platforms that power analytics, reporting, and real-time decision-making.
This is a strategic technical leadership role where you’ll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end solutions across a modern AWS/Databricks stack.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design of scalable, secure data architectures on AWS.
- Build and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming data.
- Deploy and manage Apache Spark jobs on Databricks and Delta Lake.
- Write production-grade Python and SQL for large-scale data transformations.
- Drive data quality, governance, and automation through CI/CD and IaC.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor and guide data engineering teams.
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience in senior/principal data engineering roles.
- Expertise in AWS, Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
- Strong background in cloud-native data platforms, real-time processing, and data lakes.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Airflow, Kafka, Docker, GitLab CI/CD.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.
What’s on offer
- £84000 salary + 10% bonus
- 6% pension contribution
- Private medical & flexible benefits package
- 25 days annual leave (plus buy/sell options)
- Hybrid working – travel to London or Winchester once/twice per week
Join a company at the forefront of media, connectivity, and smart technology , where your work directly powers millions of daily connections across the UK.
About Stott and May
In late 2009, Stott and May was founded on the belief that hiring managers should never have to make the choice between time to hire and quality of candidate. We noticed a gap in the market for a search offering that can combine the speed of contingent recruitment with a high value, high touch, insightful service more commonly found in the executive search space. A talent solution that's helpful, engaging, collaborative and stacked full of value-add. Built with the flexibility to provide our partners with a choice of best practice features that can be packaged to meet their unique hiring challenges.
We've been building our team alongside the technical teams of some of the worlds innovative businesses. Our 130 employees across London, Reading, Los Angeles and New York are cultivating specialist talent communities every day to deliver the connections to drive growth. It's time to build better, more personalised, recruitment campaigns that deliver talent on time.