Principal Data Engineer

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New York / $160000 - $180000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$160000 - $180000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Principal Data Engineer

Location: New York City (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Salary: Up to $180,000 + bonus
Sponsorship: Not available

Harnham is partnering with a globally recognised design and engineering organisation to hire a Principal Data Engineer as part of a newly forming data and analytics function.

This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity to help build the organisation's modern data platform from scratch. You'll have ownership, influence, and long-term impact as the data foundation is established to support analytics, AI, and future decision-making at global scale.

The Role

As the Principal Data Engineer, you'll take end-to-end ownership of building and scaling a Databricks-based data lakehouse. Working closely with analytics leadership and cross-functional teams, you'll turn complex, messy enterprise data into a reliable, scalable platform that the business will build on for years to come.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Designing, building, and owning end-to-end data pipelines in Databricks

  • Expanding a cloud data lakehouse on AWS

  • Integrating data from enterprise systems (ERP, HR, CRM)

  • Handling unstructured and inconsistent global data

  • Establishing documentation, standards, and best practices

  • Partnering with analytics, finance, and technology teams to enable future AI use cases

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years' experience in data engineering or cloud data roles

  • Strong experience with Databricks, AWS, Snowflake

  • Advanced Python and SQL

  • Experience integrating enterprise systems (ERP, Salesforce, Workday, etc.)

  • Proven ability to own data pipelines end to end

  • Comfortable operating as an early hire in a lean environment

Why Apply?

  • True Founding Data Engineer role with ownership and visibility

  • Build a data platform from the ground up

  • Work that directly enables analytics and AI initiatives

  • Join a globally respected organisation at a pivotal growth stage

Apply via Harnham to learn more about this confidential opportunity.

CONTACT

Oisin Ennis
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Senior Recruitment Consultant

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