AWS Data Engineer
Bis Henderson
Barrow upon Soar, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 80KJob location
Barrow upon Soar, United Kingdom
Tech stack
API
Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data analysis
Databases
Continuous Integration
ETL
Python
Operational Databases
SQL Databases
Spark
Data Lake
PySpark
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data Management
Terraform
Job description
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., * 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
Requirements
- 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, All applicants must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK as our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.
About the company
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