# Principal Data Platform Engineer

Job Purpose As a Principal Data Platform Engineer at RWS, you will be the most senior technical authority on our data platform. You will architect and implement a scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data platform, setting the engineering standards, patterns and guardrails that the wider Data Engineering team builds on. This is a hands-on role: you will write the Terraform, the pipelines and the automation that make the platform repeatable, secure and cost-effective at scale. You'll own the platform end to end - from infrastructure as code and CI/CD through to the data pipelines running on top of it - and you'll push the boundaries of how we deliver, including leveraging AI agents to scale up pipeline delivery. Your work will directly enable our Analytics and AI teams to build the future of global language services. If you enjoy designing systems that other engineers depend on, you'll find a home here. About Product & Technology Product & Technology plays a pivotal role in aligning the organization with its strategic objectives and enhancing shareholder value. Product & Technology is responsible for establishing unified standards and governance practices throughout the company. Add

- **Id**: 2947150
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rws-group-principal-data-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Maidenhead, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: IN, GB, CZ, RO
- **Hiring countries total**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-20T18:59:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T09:21:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 18
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5729
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, RegTech, AML & Compliance, Legal Software

## Company

- **Id**: 1902709
- **Name**: Propylon
- **Domain**: propylon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/propylon>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 50
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.46
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 98000
- **Max usd**: 176000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_cell
- **Sample n**: 38

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 18

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: country
- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T18:59:30Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-08T09:21:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 18
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T12:33:06Z

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