Data Engineer

We’re looking for AWS Data Engineers to join a growing team delivering data transformation programmes within secure environments.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building scalable data platforms, developing robust data pipelines, and working with modern AWS-native technologies. You’ll help design, build, and maintain high-performance data solutions that support business-critical decision-making while ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing and maintaining data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Apache Airflow.
• Designing scalable data workflows and orchestration processes.
• Building and optimising solutions using AWS data services.
• Containerising applications and data workloads using Docker.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving data platform performance.
• Working closely with developers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient solutions.
• Supporting CI/CD processes and automation across the data engineering lifecycle.
• Ensuring best practices around security, governance, and data quality are maintained.
• Contributing to documentation, process improvement, and knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Strong Python development skills.
• Solid SQL expertise.
• Experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Docker.
• Strong AWS experience including:
• Redshift
• OpenSearch
• Lambda
• Glue
• Step Functions
• AWS Batch
• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Understanding of AWS security principles, IAM, and role-based access controls.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience with Athena, SQS, EMR, CloudWatch, or CloudTrail.
• Terraform or CloudFormation experience.
• Experience working within consultancy or client-facing environments.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and large-scale data transformation programmes.
• Experience working within secure or regulated environments.

• £365 per day inside IR35.
• Long-term programme work.
• Exposure to complex cloud and data transformation projects.
• Modern AWS data stack.
• Collaborative engineering environment.
• Opportunities to work alongside experienced cloud, data, and platform specialists.