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URGENT AWS Data Engineer (migration)

Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Martock
money-bag £500 Daily
Posted: 02 October 2026 (Today)
Closing date: 01 November 2026
Ref: 3187036304

AWS Data Engineer - MigrationWe''re seeking a strong and 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 ..... full job details .....

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