About this role

Design and deliver product data products on Databricks — owning ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across the medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) to produce certified datasets consumed across product, analytics, and the wider business
Lead the hard problems in the domain — event schema governance across multiple products, identity resolution and sessionisation, high-volume event pipelines, and modelling the path from product usage to engagement and learner outcomes
Define and evolve engineering standards — dbt patterns, event ingestion patterns, data contracts, testing, observability — and contribute to cross-cutting standards across the wider data function
Own data quality and contracts for the data products you ship — implementing quality checks, maintaining contracts as the interface between producers and consumers, and ensuring issues are caught early and remediated cleanly
Raise the technical bar around you — through code review, design input, pairing, and the kind of senior IC presence that lifts the engineers and analysts you work with
Translate operational complexity — multiple product event sources, schema drift, ongoing integration of acquired products — into clean, durable engineering execution the business can rely on

5+ years in data engineering, with demonstrable experience operating in a senior IC capacity
Hands-on production experience with Databricks
Hands-on experience with dbt
Strong SQL and Python
Experience working with product, behavioural, or event-based data sources at scale
Track record of defining and applying engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, documentation, and observability
Experience operating in complex environments — multi-source event landscapes, high-volume pipelines, or platform migrations
Strong communication skills — credible with engineers, analysts, and senior product and business stakeholders, and able to translate technical decisions into business and product impact

Principal Data Engineer – Product Data

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