Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer (Contract) Outside IR35 Principal Data Engineer £650 per day | Outside IR35 | 3 Month Contract | Remote UK (Very occasional travel to Leeds if you can) Brio Digital are working with a major UK organisation embarking on a strategic data transformation project to modernise a business-critical operational platform. The project focuses on replacing manual, spreadsheet-driven processes with a scalable, cloud-native solution that will automate high-volume invoicing and operational workflows used across the business. This is a greenfield MVP with the potential to expand into a much larger programme of work. You'll join a cross-functional delivery team alongside Solution Architects, Technical Analysts, Project Managers, and Data specialists, taking ownership of the platform's technical design and engineering. Principal Data Engineer Responsibilities: * Design and build a cloud-native AWS data platform * Lead technical delivery of the MVP * Build scalable serverless data pipelines and APIs * Design secure, resilient event-driven architectures * Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, Security and Data teams * Implement IaC, CI/CD and monitoring Liaising with other teams is a key part of this position, so solid communication skills are a must. Data Engineer Key Skills Required: * Enterprise AWS data platform experience * Python * Serverless AWS * Event-driven architecture * Terraform or CloudFormation * CI/CD and enterprise security AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, IAM, Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation, CloudWatch Contract: £650/day | Outside IR35 | Initial 3 months