Principal Data Engineer

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Virgin VoyagesTravel and Hospitality
This gig is remote and open to candidates based in Florida.Full-TimePrincipal
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Experience
10+ years
Required Skills
PythonSQLCloud ComputingData engineeringBigQuerydbtMLOps

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering or related data platform roles.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and evolving modern data platforms, pipelines, and architecture.
  • Strong SQL and Python skills.
  • Experience working across a modern data technology stack.
  • Experience with cloud-based data platforms and managed services.
  • Proven ability to operate independently and lead technical direction with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Strong experience improving reliability, observability, testing, and data quality within production data environments.
  • Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture patterns, and reusable technical frameworks.
  • Experience enabling AI use cases through strong data engineering foundations.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex).

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve technical direction for the data engineering platform, including architecture, standards, and long-term platform evolution.
  • Design and guide the development of scalable, reliable data pipelines and platform capabilities that support analytics and AI use cases.
  • Contribute to the modernization and evolution of the data platform toward more scalable and managed solutions.
  • Define and enhance engineering standards, architecture patterns, reusable frameworks, and best practices across the data engineering function.
  • Improve platform reliability, observability, testing practices, and data quality across production data environments.
  • Partner with machine learning and related technical teams to support AI platform enablement and help shape MLOps practices.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business and platform needs.
  • Provide selective hands-on technical contribution, particularly in the establishment of foundational services, frameworks, and platform capabilities.
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