Data Engineer - AWS - SC Cleared

You will work across an AWS environment, with a strong emphasis on AWS-native tooling, including Glue, S3, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge and other modern orchestration patterns. This role suits an engineer confident in building robust, governed, production-grade pipelines within a government-regulated environment., * Work in a modern, multi-cloud environment using cutting-edge AWS-native tooling.

• High-impact work enabling better intelligence, reporting, and operational decision-making.
• Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team across engineering, analytics, governance and delivery.

• Strong proficiency in AWS cloud-native data engineering, including: Glue, S3, Step Functions, EventBridge, Lambda, SNS/SQS, IAM.

• Hands-on experience designing and building data pipelines across AWS and/or Azure (Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark).

• Strong SQL development skills and experience working with diverse datasets.

• Experience implementing data quality, monitoring, and validation frameworks.

• Proven ability to build scalable, secure, well-documented pipelines in cloud environments.

• Valid SC clearance (transferable).

Desirable Skills

• AWS or Azure certifications (advantageous).
• Experience with Real Time event-driven patterns (eg, EventBridge, Kinesis).
• Familiarity with modern DevOps/CI-CD tooling and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK).
• Experience supporting visualisation and BI environments.
• Understanding of data governance, security baselines, and working within regulated environments.

London - £450 - 500 per day Contract Posted by: SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment Posted: Friday, 5 December 2025, SR2 Consulting has an exciting new role with a government department, starting in January. You'll be part of a new data team being established to deliver a secure, scalable, cloud-native data platform.