URGENT AWS Data Engineer (migration)

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 (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