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Principal Data Engineer

UCL - Data Enabling Team

Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: £68,284 to £76,244
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 21st August 2026
Closes: 7th September 2026
Job Ref: B01-05306

About us

We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. IT Service and Operations manages the infrastructure and data platforms which underpin UCL's central IT services, including data centres, cloud compute and storage platforms, networks, telephony, communications and collaboration and enterprise applications. In addition, IT Service and Operations provides an End-to-end Service Management capability, ensuring UCL's IT services are relevant, responsive and resilient.

About the role

A carefully managed Data Asset is critical to UCL’s vision. The Principal Data Engineer is the key Technical lead in the Data Enabling team and plays an essential role in designing, developing and implementing data flows and Integrations to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.

Working closely with the Platform Owner, architecture and other senior stakeholders to identify and implement solutions to numerous data flows that are strategically aligned

About you

You will be experienced in Technically leading a Data Enabling / Transformation team in a matrix agile environment. Your track record will be to have delivered exceptional results by working with a wide range of stakeholders, coupled with experience in service management, user experience, and a healthy growth mindset.

You need to have previous in-depth industry knowledge and experience of implementing and supporting Data integration, flows and transformations both on-premise and ideally Cloud (FiveTran, AWS, Azure) in a large scale and complex organisation. You also understand the concepts and principles of data modelling and recognise opportunities for re-use and alignment between services and products.

Technically, you will also require good exposure across Fabric, Copilot studio, data engineering, advanced analytics using data science concepts, API integration, DevOps Ci/CD, data governance and quality.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

  • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
  • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
  • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
  • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
  • Immigration loan
  • Relocation scheme for certain posts
  • On-Site nursery
  • On-site gym
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
  • Discounted medical insurance Visit

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we wantour community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We arecommitted to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to beinga place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to beunderrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include peoplefrom Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+people, and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women

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