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Job Description:
Salary Range: £53,269 – £68,000
Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.
Your impact
At Leonardo, our Principal Data Engineers lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable data solutions that underpin critical defence, government, and commercial operations. As a technical authority and people manager, youll guide engineering teams through the full data lifecycletransforming raw data into actionable insight across hybrid and cloud environments. This role blends technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and team development, offering the opportunity to shape data strategy and capability across multiple programmes.
Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.
What you will do as a Principal Data Engineer
- Provide technical leadership and oversight for data engineering delivery within your team
- Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of end-to-end data solutions: acquisition, integration, storage, processing, and analysis
- Implement scalable data solutions using big data architectures and workflow management systems
- Guide the development of tools for data-driven xwwtmva insights and task automation
- Continuously test and monitor systems to improve performance and reliability
- Research and adopt emerging technologies
- Work with cloud platforms and diverse operating systems
- Support development and deployment of machine learning models
- Collaborate with DevOps Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Cyber Consultants
- Mentor and coach junior data engineers to build team capability, while managing project tas
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