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Job Title: Senior Technical LeadLocation: Norwich, Norfolk (3 Days a week)Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35)Duration: 6 Months The Role We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead who combines hands-on engineering excellence with strong leadership and stakeholder management. You will own the end-to-end technical delivery of data platforms and pipelines built in AWS-with a focus on AWS Glue, Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), and Python-and collaborate closely with Directors, Senior Architects, and Program Leadership to deliver business outcomes at scale.This is a player-coach role: you will design, build, review, and optimize complex data workflows while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices.Ideal for: Someone who has delivered multiple production programs in a modern AWS data engineering landscape, can communicate trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders, and can lead teams through ambiguity to predictable, high-quality outcomes.Your Responsibilities:Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Python (PySpark), and MWAA (Airflow).Define solution architectures, data models, orchestration patterns, and CI/CD for data workflows.Own the technical roadmap, decomposition, and delivery plan-including sizing, sprint planning, and risk mitigation.Drive performance optimization (e.g., partitioning strategies, Glue job tuning, job bookmarks, dynamic frames vs DataFrames, retry/backoff strategies in Airflow).Ensure robust observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and data quality (unit tests, Great Expectations/Deequ-style checks, validations).Act as the technical point of contact for Senior Architects, and Program Managers; translate business needs into technical designs and delivery milestones.Present architecture decisions, trade-offs, and TCO to senior stakeholders with clarity, data, and rationale.Manage vendor/partner coordination where relevant.Establish coding standards, code, Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Django | SaaS UK Remote (Quarterly team meet-ups) £60,000-£70,000 (DOE) Tech Stack: - Python - Django - Authentication methods - OAuth2, JWT, API keys - AWS SR2 are partnering with a growing SaaS platform used by organisations..., Role: Backend Developer Start Date: ASAP Contract Length: 6 months (extensions available) Work Location: Remote, with ad-hoc, expenses paid travel to office IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Industry: Government Interview Process: MS Teams, 1-2 Stage, Technical Interview..., A leading construction group is seeking a Senior Engineer to oversee major improvements to the A47 project in Norwich. The role involves engineering control and mentoring a site team while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Candidates should have...
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review practices, branching strategies, and secure-by-design principles.Implement DevSecOps for data: infrastructure-as-code (IaC), secrets management, environment promotion, and automated testing.Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., PII/PCI, encryption, auditability, lineage).Mentor and upskill engineers; foster a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.Your Profile Essential skills/knowledge/experience:~10+ years of total experience in software/data engineering, with 5+ years leading delivery of production solutions in an AWS data engineering environment.
Advanced hands-on expertise with:Python (including PySpark & data engineering patterns)AWS Glue (Jobs, Crawlers, Glue Studio, Glue Catalog, PySpark, Job bookmarks)MWAA (Apache Airflow) (DAG design, scheduling, sensors, retries, XComs, task isolation, best practices)Strong across broader AWS services:S3, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, Athena, EMR (nice to have), Redshift (nice to have)Proven experience delivering multiple end-to-end programs (architecture build test deploy operate) with measurable outcomes (SLAs, cost targets, performance).Excellent stakeholder communication and executive presence; able to engage Directors, Senior Architects, and Program Leadership.Solid grounding in data modeling, data governance, security/compliance, and cost optimization on AWS.Experience with CI/CD (e.g., CodePipeline/GitHub Actions/Bitbucket Pipelines), IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform), and containerization (Docker).Architectural thinking: designs for scale, reliability, cost, and evolvability.Delivery excellence: breaks down complex work, sets milestones, manages risks, and delivers on time.Communication & influence: distills complexity for senior stakeholders; backs decisions with data.Hands-on leadership: sets the technical bar through reviews, pairing, and exemplars.Ownership & clarity: aligns teams on problem statements, success criteria, and measurable outcomes.Languages:~ Python (PySpark), SQL
AWS:~ Glue, MWAA (Airflow), S3, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, Athena, Redshift (nice), EMR (nice)
DevOps:~ Git, CI/CD (CodePipeline/GitHub Actions), Terraform/CloudFormation, Docker
Data Quality/Observability:~ Great Expectations/Deequ (nice), OpenLineage (nice)
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:Domain experience in BFSI (risk, pricing, regulatory reporting, underwriting, fraud, payments, or actuarial data).Experience with event-driven and near-real-time pipelines (Kafka/Kinesis, streaming ETL).Knowledge of data quality frameworks (Great Expectations, Deequ) and data lineage/catalog (Atlas, Alation, Collibra).Exposure to Databricks or EMR for advanced Spark workloads.Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect / Data Analytics / DevOps Engineer.Prior experience leading multi-team programs with offshore/nearshore models.JBRP1_UKTJ Similar jobs, Amazon Connect Senior Engineer Travel: Ability to travel up to 30% Location: Remote UK Are you a cloud-based Customer Experience Software Engineer with experience in the implementation of AWS Cloud contact center solutions. with a solid understanding of application..., Job Description Are you an experienced Maintenance Engineer looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience within a food/FMCG manufacturing environment? Do you have experience leading a team of engineers? We are working with a family-founded FMCG business in..., NMS Recruit are seeking an Senior Consultant with a strong background in the construction industry with solid financial/commercial experience. The role would be suitable for quantity surveyors or finance/accounting professionals within the construction industry who are..., A recruitment agency focusing on engineering roles is seeking a Site Agent to join their Highways team. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in Civil Engineering or related field and have robust communication skills. Responsibilities include managing the site team,...
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Multi-Skilled Engineer/Team Leader - Norfolk Not sure what skills you will need for this opportunity Simply read the full description below to get a complete picture of candidate requirements. Salary: £52,000 - £57,000 + overtime available Shifts: 4 on 4 off days and...
