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Principal Data Engineer - Operations & Engineering

British Airways PLC | london, United-Kingdom | Posted May 31, 2026

Position Overview

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 versio...

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