URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration)

Opus Recruitment Solutions
Bishopsgate, City And County Of the City Of London, EC2M 3UE, United Kingdom
6 days ago
£500 – £525 pd

Salary

£500 – £525 pd

Posted
1 Oct 2026 (6 days ago)

AWS Data Engineer - MigrationWe're seeking a strong & hands-on AWS Data Engineering contractor, ASAP start, for an urgent replacement contract

Rate: Up to £(Apply online only) 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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