Life at UiPath

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. Were committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power.

To make that happen we need people who are curious self-propelled generous and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving fast-thinking growth company. And people who careabout each other about UiPath and about our larger purpose.

Could that be you

Your mission

You as a Principal Data Engineer will shape and evolve our modern data platform. This is a senior individual contributor role with high strategic impact strong architectural ownership and clear expectations around leadership influence initiative and autonomous execution.
Our data ecosystem is built on Microsoft Fabric and we expect this role to drive best practices scalability and long-term platform evolution. While prior Fabric experience is not mandatory strong experience in comparable modern cloud data platforms is essential.
This role goes beyond implementationit requires someone who challenges the status quo drives technical direction and elevates the engineering bar across the team.

What youll do at UiPath

• Own and evolve the architecture of our modern data platform (Fabric-based lakehouse environment)

• Lead complex cross-functional data initiatives end-to-end with minimal oversight

• Define and enforce engineering standards modeling best practices and performance optimization

• Design and optimize scalable ELT pipelines and dimensional data models

• Drive platform reliability governance and cost-performance balance

• Evaluate and introduce new tools and architectural improvements

• Act as a technical leader and mentor within the data organization

• Partner with Finance Sales and other stakeholders to translate business strategy into scalable data solutions
  

What youll bring to the team

Core Requirements:
-7 years of experience in data engineering / data platform roles
- Expert-level SQL skills (mandatory) advanced transformations optimization scalable modeling
-Good working knowledge of Python and/or PySpark
- Proven experience designing and operating modern cloud-based data platforms
(e.g. Fabric Databricks Snowflake Synapse Redshift BigQuery etc.)
- Strong understanding of lakehouse architecture and ELT patterns
- Experience building scalable dimensional models and enterprise-grade data solutions
- Experience integrating complex enterprise systems (ERP CRM HRIS etc.)

Platform Context:

- We currently operate on Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse Pipelines Notebooks Data Warehouse)
- Direct Fabric experience is a plus but experience in similar modern distributed/cloud data platforms is expected along with the ability to quickly adapt and lead within Fabric

Leadership Expectations:

-High degree of ownership and accountability

- Comfortable making architectural decisions in ambiguous environments

- Proactive in identifying risks and improvement opportunities

- Ability to influence technical direction without formal authority

- Strong mentoring capability and engineering mindset

- Strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution

What Success Looks Like

• A scalable reliable and future-proof data platform

• Elevated engineering standards and architectural clarity

• High-impact initiatives delivered with autonomy

• A stronger data engineering culture driven by your influence
  
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Maybe you dont tick all the boxes abovebut still think youd be great for the job Go ahead apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizesand passion cant be learned.

Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role the number of hybrid office-based and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

We value a range of diverse backgrounds experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression national origin disability neurodiversity military and/or veteran status or any other protected classes. Additionally UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures visit our .

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