Data Platform Architect (Hybrid) — Lead & Innovate

Takeaway Group; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - GBP 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global online delivery platform is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead its Data Platforms team. This hybrid role focuses on defining technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and solving complex technical challenges. Candidates should have extensive software and data engineering experience, proficiency in modern data technologies, and strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience at a Principal or equivalent level in software and data engineering.
• Deep proficiency across the modern data stack.
• Proven track record with cloud-native services and infrastructure automation.
• Exceptional ability to create maintainable architectural designs.
• Strong communication skills to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical vision for the Data Platform.
• Design and govern the architecture for core data infrastructure.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance for critical components.
• Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers to raise technical standards.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of new data technologies.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Python

Scala

Cloud technologies (AWS/GCP)

Data transformation frameworks

Distributed systems

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Kafka

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

A global online delivery platform is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead its Data Platforms team. This hybrid role focuses on defining technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and solving complex technical challenges. Candidates should have extensive software and data engineering experience, proficiency in modern data technologies, and strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.