via Reed · 1 October 2026 ·5 days ago

URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration)

Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Parrett Works Contract GBP 130,000 – 136,500
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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

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