AWS Data Engineer - MigrationWe're seeking a strong & hands-on AWS Data Engineering contractor, ASAP start, for an urgent replacement contract
Rate: Up to £500-525 per day, Outside IR35
Working Patterns: Remote-first, London (up to 1 day p/w on-site).
Contract: 3-6 months (likley extension)
Sector: Financial Services
About:
We're supporting a major cloud transformation programme focused on migrating a large-scale legacy ETL estate consiting of several thousand batch jobs from Ab Initio to a modern, serverless AWS data platform. This is a hands-on Senior Data Engineer role where you'll play a key part in defining migration patterns and delivering production-ready AWS Glue solutions.
Person Requirments:
- Strong AWS Data Engineer - ideally AWS Certified.
- Idelaly, you'll bring proven experience delivering Ab Initio AWS Glue (PySpark) migration programmes
- Strong hands-on AWS Data Engineering expertise, particularly AWS Glue, S3, Athena and serverless data platforms.
- Advanced Python, PySpark and SQL skills.
- Strong understanding of converting Ab Initio transformations/reformat logic into scalable PySpark solutions.
- Experience building and optimising large-scale ETL/data pipeline solutions in AWS.
- Excellent Spark performance tuning capabilities, including troubleshooting data skew, partitioning, memory and load-related issues.
- Strong data warehousing and data modelling knowledge
- Strong comminication skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Claude Code or AI-assisted code conversion tools.
- Amazon MWAA (Airflow) experience.
- AWS Certifications.
- Experience working on large-scale legacy modernisation programmes.
Please apply now - this hiring process should be expected to finish by next week. Adam Akhtar
URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration) in Martock employer: Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd Careers
As a leading player in the public sector, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to excel. With a strong focus on professional development, we offer numerous growth opportunities and support for continuous learning, ensuring that our team members are equipped to tackle complex challenges in data and analytics. Working remotely with flexible arrangements, you will be part of a dynamic environment that values your expertise and contributions, making it an excellent place for meaningful and rewarding employment.
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