# Principal Data Engineer

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will serve as the bridge between complex technical architecture and strategic business value. This is a high-impact, client-facing leadership role designed for an expert who can navigate deep technical challenges while maintaining a "customer-first" mindset. You will be the primary technical authority for our clients, ensuring their data platforms are resilient, scalable, and aligned with their long-term business goals. Key Responsibilities Customer Excellence & Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary strategic partner to client business owners, aligning technical data solutions with corporate goals while championing reliability and "clean data" for all consumers. Solution Architecture & Tech Strategy: Drive the development of complex, large-scale data architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps, balancing technical innovation with cost efficiency and operational stability. Delivery & Execution: Oversee "team-of-teams" delivery performance, ensuring the quality and resilience of high-impact data pipelines while managing capacity planning and team velocity. Incident Management & Resilience: Lead the triage and resolution of critical platform

- **Id**: 4171432
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nasstar-principal-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T14:51:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:51:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3124
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Growth opportunities, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Managed IT Services (MSP), Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 172343
- **Name**: Nasstar
- **Domain**: nasstar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nasstar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T14:51:49Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 11
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T20:50:31Z

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