Principal Data Engineer - Operations & Engineering

Principal Data Engineer

You’ll be part of the Operations Delivery Intelligence (ODI) directorate, acting as a technical leader for data engineering across the organisation. This area plays a critical role in enabling secure, scalable and high‑performing data platforms that underpin data products and decision‑making across British Airways.

What you’ll do

• Act as a technical leader for data engineering best practice across delivery teams
• Lead the design, build, test and deployment of secure and scalable data pipelines
• Maintain and operate data products, ensuring availability, performance and resilience through monitoring and incident management
• Provide assurance on code quality and automation used to manage data flows
• Lead service reviews, health checks and root cause analysis to improve reliability and reduce operational overhead
• Set and embed standards for data processing documentation and version control <...