Senior AWS Data Engineer (LDW Data Warehouse Discovery)
Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office
Duration: 6 months
Pay rate: £469 per day through FCSA umbrella
Must hold active SC Clearance
The role falls within the Data Contract Delivery Area of the contract. The group provides a wide range of data and analytics solutions in support of our clients business priorities: maximize revenues, bear down on fraud, and cloud migration. This role involves migrating data from legacy on‑premise systems (primarily Oracle and Informatica) to a new AWS cloud‑native architecture. You will be part of an Agile software delivery team working closely with other engineers and supported by project managers, business analysts and architects, with additional client and key stakeholder interaction as required. We are looking for strong AWS Senior Data Engineers who can design and deliver cloud transformation projects.
Your work will be to:
* Support the technical lead with design and client interactions and support junior engineers with their development.
* Design, develop and test data pipelines: create robust pipelines to ingest, process, and transform data, ensuring it is ready for analytics and reporting.
* Implement ETL/ELT processes: develop and test Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) or Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) workflows to seamlessly move data from source systems to data warehouses/data lakes/lake houses using open‑source and AWS tools.
* Adopt DevOps practices: utilize DevOps methodologies and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
Must-have skills:
* Proficiency with Core AWS tools (AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Redshift)
* Programming skills: Python
* SQL and data storage technologies: some knowledge of data warehouse and database technologies (AWS Redshift, AWS RDS)
* AWS data lakes: some experience with AWS data lakes on AWS S3 to store and process both structured and unstructured data sets.
Nice-to-have skills:
* Knowledge of Open Table Formats (Iceberg/Delta)
* AWS tools: Experience with Amazon CloudWatch, SNS, Athena, DynamoDB, EMR, Kinesis
* Data modelling
* Job scheduling/orchestration
* Data virtualisation tools (Denodo)
* ALM Tooling (Jira, Confluence)
* CI/CD toolsets (GitLab, Terraform)
* Reporting tools (Business Objects, Power BI, Pentaho BA)
* Data Analytics toolset (SAS Viya)
* Observability tools (Grafana, Dynatrace)
Experience:
* Senior data engineer delivering within large‑scale data analytics solutions
* Aware of DevOps culture and modern engineering practices
* Agile Scrum based delivery experience
* Proactive, personal drive, enthusiasm, willingness to learn
* Excellent communication skills including stakeholder management
* Developing solutions within the given architecture and adhering to specified NFRs
* Supporting other engineers within your team
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often shortlisted within 48 hours.
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