​Senior/Lead Data Engineer

Contract outside ir35

Remote (Occasional visit to client site)

Our client is establishing a dedicated Data Engineering Squad to deliver a large-scale AWS-based data migration and platform modernisation programme. The team will be responsible for migrating critical enterprise databases into AWS/CDP, implementing Change Data Capture (CDC), standardising data engineering patterns, enabling advanced analytics and ML use cases, and ensuring strong documentation, governance, and knowledge transfer.

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Required Experience & Skills

• 5+ years in data engineering, including leadership or principal-level roles

• Deep hands-on AWS experience: S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DMS, IAM, Step Functions

• Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale data migrations

• Expert-level Python and SQL

• Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform

• Data modelling and warehouse design (star schema, performance tuning)

• Strong experience with dbt and modern ELT patterns

• Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills

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If this position is of interest then please apply, we'd love to hear from you!