# Principal Data Engineer

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Standard Life as a Principal Data Engineer to join our Digital, Engineering & Delivery team within Pensions & Savings. We're looking for someone with strong experience in data engineering and you'll play a key role in delivering scalable, high-quality data solutions. Job Type: Permanent Location: This role could be based in either our Birmingham, Telford, London or Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home. Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here. Closing Date: 20/11/26 Salary and benefits: £77,000-£100,000K plus 30% bonus up to 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more Who are we? We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and

- **Id**: 4203590
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/standard-life-plc-principal-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Telford, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T14:13:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T23:01:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5074
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- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Wealth Management & Financial Advisors, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 1848047
- **Name**: Standard Life plc
- **Domain**: standardlifeplc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/standardlifeplc>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T23:01:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T02:40:35Z

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