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Principal Digital Specialist - Principal Data Engineer (Azure)

Scottish Water • Edinburgh, Scotland

Salary

£55k – £174k

Posted

26 August 2026

Work mode

Full-time

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Scottish Water is hiring a Principal Digital Specialist - Principal Data Engineer (Azure) in Edinburgh, a full-time it role. The advertised salary is £55k – £174k. Scottish Water holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland. Principal Data Engineer (Azure) We are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join our Business Analytics team and lead the development of our cloud-based data platform. Our team’s mission is to turn data into actionable insights that support better decision‑making and deliver measurable value for the business. To enable this, we have built an Azure data platform built on lakehouse architecture. The platform leverages Fabric and Azure Databricks and prov…

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Scottish Water — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £55k – £174k
How this salary compares: about 179% above the £62,524 median across 1,636 it roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland · Full-time
Similar roles nearby: 15 other live it roles in Edinburgh — browse them
Posted: 26 August 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

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IT and technology roles are one of the most consistently sponsored categories in the UK. Software engineers, data scientists, cloud architects, DevOps specialists, and cybersecurity professionals are in demand across finance, retail, the public sector, and specialist tech firms. Many large IT employers maintain established sponsorship processes through their HR and talent teams.