URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration)

AWS Data Engineer – MigrationWe’re seeking a strong & hands-on AWS Data Engineering contractor, ASAP start, for an urgent replacement contract

Rate:

Up to £ 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 to 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.

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