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Forsyth Barnes is partnering with a market-leading technology business undertaking a major Analytics & AI transformation programme.
As part of a strategic move from a large on-premise estate to a modern AWS-based analytics platform, our client is investing heavily in cloud-native data capabilities that will power enterprise reporting, customer analytics, AI initiatives and future data products.
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact programme and help shape the future of data architecture across the organisation.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior AWS Data Engineer to play a key role in designing, building and scaling a modern AWS data platform.
This is a hands-on engineering position requiring someone who has previously delivered cloud data platform initiatives and can combine technical leadership with practical delivery. You'll be responsible for helping move data from a large on-premise environment into AWS whilst establishing scalable ingestion frameworks, reusable data products and event-driven data capabilities.
The successful candidate will be comfortable mentoring engineers, challenging technical decisions and contributing directly to the build and ongoing evolution of the platform.
Key Responsibilities
* Design, build and optimise AWS-native data pipelines and cloud data platform capabilities.
* Deliver ingestion solutions using CDC, event-driven and batch processing patterns.
* Build scalable ETL/ELT frameworks and reusable data products using Python and SQL.
* Support migration of data from a large on-premise estate into AWS.
* Design and implement robust data models supporting analytics and reporting requirements.
* Develop data quality, observability, governance and monitoring frameworks.
* Collaborate closely with Architects, Engineers, Data Scientists and Product teams.
* Provide technical leadership and mentoring whilst remaining hands-on.
* Support performance optimisation, cloud cost management and operational excellence initiatives.
Requirements
* Proven commercial experience as an AWS Data Engineer or Data Platform Engineer.
* Strong experience working with AWS services including S3, Glue, Athena, EMR and Lambda.
* Advanced SQL and Python skills.
* Strong data modelling expertise, including dimensional modelling and analytics-ready data design.
* Experience delivering end-to-end cloud da...
AWS Data Engineer in West Bromwich employer: Forsyth Barnes
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