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URGENT | AWS Data Engineer - Migration
We'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 (likely extension)
Sector: Financial Services
About:
We're supporting a major cloud transformation programme focused on migrating a large-scale legacy ETL estate consisting 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.
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Person Requirements:
- Strong AWS Data Engineer - ideally AWS Certified.
- Ideally, 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 communication skills.
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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.
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