Principal Data Engineer, PEXA
Azure, PySpark, Databricks
£80-100k
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
Open for applications
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£80-100k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform property experiences.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a highly technical leader who thrives at both the strategic and execution levels: someone equally comfortable defining architecture with executives, mentoring senior engineers, and optimising distributed pipelines at scale
- Broad experience as a Data Engineer including technical leadership
- Broad cloud experience, ideally both Azure and AWS
- Deep expertise in PySpark and distributed data processing at scale
- Extensive experience designing and optimising in Databricks
- Advanced SQL optimisation and schema design for analytical workloads
- Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and GDPR/PII compliance
- Experience implementing and leading data governance frameworks
- Proven experience leading the design and operation of a complex data platform
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising technical standards
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align data initiatives with wider business goals
- Strategic mindset with a holistic view of data reliability, scalability, and business value
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Engineer to define, lead, and scale the technical strategy of our data platform
- This is a senior, hands-on leadership role at the intersection of architecture, governance, and engineering excellence, where you will shape how data is collected, processed, and delivered across the organisation
- You will own the end-to-end quality, performance, and scalability of our data systems — from raw ingestion through to trusted datasets powering business-critical analytics and reporting. This includes setting standard sand influencing the strategic roadmap for data infrastructure
- Our stack is built on both AWS and Azure, using Databricks across data domains and you will lead the evolution of this ecosystem to meet future business needs
- You’ll ensure that data is secure, compliant, discoverable, and business-ready, enabling analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to make confident, data-driven decisions
- Design and oversee scalable, performant, and secure architectures on Databricks and distributed systems
- Anticipate scaling challenges and ensure platforms are future-proof
- Lead the design and development of robust, high-performance data pipelines using PySpark and Databricks
- Define and ensure testing frameworks for data workflows
- Ensure end-to-end data quality from raw ingestion to curated, trusted datasets powering analytics
- Establish and enforce best practices for data governance, lineage, metadata, and security controls
- Ensure compliance with GDPR and other regulatory frameworks
- Act as a technical authority and mentor, guiding data engineers
- Influence cross-functional teams to align on data strategy, standards, and practices
- Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to prioritise and deliver high-impact data initiatives
- Build a culture of data trust, ensuring downstream analytics and reporting are always accurate and consistent
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies where they add value to the ecosystem
Our take
Even as industries embrace the digital revolution, some practices lag behind. For example, property exchange and remortgaging still involve a host of paperwork and back-and-forth between parties. PEXA supplies an eConveyancing platform to automate and simplify these processes, improving accuracy and efficiency while reducing costs.
PEXA was founded in 2010 to bring automation to the Australian property market, before expanding to the UK. The company created its eConveyancing service from scratch, including developing the technology behind it, and can serve property exchange, purchase, development and more; though the PEXA UK division is currently focussed solely on its novel remortgaging solution, as the volume of UK remortgages is expected to rapidly escalate with growing interest rates.
PEXA has benefitted from the pandemic-instigated digital transformation, as well as the similarly fuelled property market boom, which allowed the company to grow rapidly in Australia. Having brought its platform to the much larger UK property market, the company has a chance to demonstrate the value of its digital property settlement solution to a new range of customers, and the potential for massive growth.
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Company
Company HQ
Civic Quarter, Leeds, UK
Leadership
Joe Peppe
(CEO)They joined PEXA UK in 2023 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of tmgroup, Managing Director at EDM Group, Business Development Director at RR Donnelley, and Senior Account Manager at Williams Leaf.
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