AWS Data Engineer

Location: Leicestershire, hybrid
Salary: circa -70,000 - -80,000
Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineer to lead the build of a modern AWS-based data platform, taking ownership from core infrastructure through to curated, business-ready datasets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate a scalable AWS data platform, including storage, compute, security, and monitoring
• Develop robust, idempotent ETL pipelines across diverse data sources (APIs, databases, files, and event streams)
• Implement medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold) to transform raw data into high-quality, analytics-ready datasets
• Establish infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices to ensure reproducibility and continuous improvement
• Own data modelling, master data management, and aggregation layers to support reporting, analytics, and ML use cases

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience building and running production data platforms on AWS end-to-end, ideally in a multi-site business environment
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience in Spark/PySpark and modern table formats (e.g. Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
• Expertise in AWS data services (e.g. S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK)
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar
• Ability to design scalable architectures, make pragmatic trade-offs, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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