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# AWS Data Engineer

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Salary:** £76,000.0 - £140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Data Analysis, Batch Processing, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Data Streaming, Scripting, Test-Driven Development (TDD), AWS Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gba0e11ca50753c770a6d9f8c989c322b2/eaa

## About the Role

* Proven experience building data pipelines
 * Strong understanding of data modelling and structures
 * Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, Athena, Glue)
 * Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
 * Python or equivalent scripting language
 * Experience with test-driven development
 * Familiarity with Agile delivery

## Description

Join a fast-growing consultancy at the forefront of secure data and cloud infrastructure, delivering AI-ready platforms for some of the UK's most high-impact projects.
We're looking for an experienced AWS Data Engineer to help design, build, and maintain a secure, scalable data platform for a government client - supporting real-time and batch processing that underpins critical analytics and decision-making.
What you'll be doing:

 * Building, testing, and maintaining robust data pipelines
 * Designing logical and physical data models
 * Scaling the data platform to meet evolving use cases
 * Analysing data flows and improving processing performance
 * Ensuring data architecture aligns with agreed standards
 * Troubleshooting issues and driving continuous improvement


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