Principal Data Engineer (Product Data) in Newtownabbey

Every mind is unique. Yet much of the world is still built for what’s considered "normal," leaving too many people behind. At Everway, we change that by creating technology that helps everyone understand and be understood. By understanding and addressing the unique needs of each individual, we’re creating a world where differences are recognized and valued. Our careers fit real life. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job. You’re joining a movement to build a more neuroinclusive world. We’re a global community of over 800 employees spanning North America, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. A career here is purposeful and fast‑moving, with clear expectations, modern tools, and the clarity to focus on what matters most. Our people are supported and encouraged to show up as they are, with different ways of thinking welcomed and valued. We pride ourselves on our core values that are embedded within our culture: be curious, have courage, and commit fully.

About The Role

Everway is a growing EdTech SaaS business with a complex, multi‑product data landscape. We need a Principal Data Engineer to bring senior engineering depth into our product data domain. The role involves leading the design and delivery of product data products on our Databricks lakehouse, from high‑volume event ingestion through governed, contract‑backed datasets consumed by analytics, product management, and downstream AI use cases. The position reports to the VP of Product Data and sits within the wider Data Engineering function. It is a senior individual contributor role with deep technical authority and standards influence.

Main Responsibilities

• Design and deliver product data products on Databricks, owning ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across the medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) to produce certified datasets consumed across product, analytics, and the wider business.
• Lead hard problems in the domain: event schema governance across multiple products, identity resolution and sessionisation, high‑volume event pipelines, and modelling the path from product usage to engagement and learner outcomes.
• Define and evolve engineering standards—dbt patterns, event ingestion patterns, data contracts, testing, observability—and contribute to cross‑cutting standards across the wider data function.
• Own data quality and contracts for the data products you ship—implementing quality checks, maintaining contracts as the interface between producers and consumers, and ensuring issues are caught early and remediated cleanly.
• Raise the technical bar around you—through code review, design input, pairing, and the IC presence that lifts engineers and analysts you work with.
• Translate operational complexity—multiple product event sources, schema drift, ongoing integration of acquired products—into clean, durable engineering execution the business can rely on.

Essential Criteria

• 5+ years in data engineering, with demonstrable experience operating in a senior IC capacity.
• Hands‑on production experience with Databricks.
• Hands‑on experience with dbt.
• Strong SQL and Python.
• Experience working with product, behavioural, or event‑based data sources at scale.
• Track record of defining and applying engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, documentation, and observability.
• Experience operating in complex environments—multi‑source event landscapes, high‑volume pipelines, or platform migrations.
• Strong communication skills—credible with engineers, analysts, and senior product and business stakeholders, and able to translate technical decisions into business and product impact.

Desirable Criteria

• Direct experience with product analytics or event‑tracking platforms (e.g., Snowplow, Segment, Amplitude, Mixpanel) as data sources.
• Experience designing event schemas and managing schema evolution across multiple products.
• Familiarity with streaming or near‑real‑time ingestion (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Lakeflow).
• Familiarity with the wider Databricks ecosystem—Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, MetricFlow, DQX.
• Experience working within a data product operating model with defined contracts and SLAs.
• Background in SaaS or EdTech environments.
• Familiarity with modern BI tools (Tableau preferred) and how data is consumed downstream.

Benefits

Enjoy a competitive salary with bonus opportunities, flexible work schedules, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, flexible time off plans, career growth through development programs, and a collaborative, innovative culture where your ideas matter. We are committed to providing a Drug‑Free Workplace for all employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.