Senior AWS Data engineer (LDW Data Warehouse Discovery)

Telford
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Senior AWS Data engineer (LDW Data Warehouse Discovery)

Max Supplier Rate: £483

Clearance Required: SC ACTIVE

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office

IR35 Status: Inside

The role falls within the Data Contract Delivery Area of the clients contract. The group provides a wide range of data and analytics solutions in support of our client's business priorities: maximise revenues, bear down on fraud, and cloud migration.

This role involves migrating data from legacy on-premise systems (primarily Oracle and Informatica) to a new AWS cloud-native architecture.

You will be part of an Agile software delivery team working closely with other engineers and supported by project managers, business analysts and architects. With additional client and key stakeholder interaction as required.

We are looking for strong AWS Senior Data Engineers who can design and deliver cloud transformation projects. Your work will be to:

As part of a cloud transformation team, supporting the technical lead with design and client interactions, and supporting junior engineers with their development.

Design, Develop and Test Data Pipelines: Create robust pipelines to ingest, process, and transform data, ensuring it is ready for analytics and reporting.

Implement ETL/ELT Processes: Develop and Test Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) or Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) workflows to seamlessly move data from source systems to Data Warehouses/Data Lakes/Lake Houses using Open Source and AWS tools.

Adopt DevOps Practices: Utilise DevOps methodologies and tools for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).Must-have skills:

Proficiency with Core AWS Tools (AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Redshift)

Programming Skills (Python)

SQL and Data Storage Technologies: Some knowledge of Data Warehouse, Database technologies, and technologies (AWS Redshift, AWS RDS).

AWS Data Lakes: Some experience with AWS data lakes on AWS S3 to store and process both structured and unstructured data sets.Nice-to-have skills:

Knowledge of Open Table Formats (Iceberg/Delta).

AWS Tools: Experience with Amazon CloudWatch, SNS, Athena, DynamoDB, EMR, Kinesis.

Data modelling

Job scheduling/orchestration

Data virtualisation tools (Denodo)

ALM Tooling (Jira, Confluence)

CI/CD toolsets (GitLab, Terraform)

Reporting tools (Business Objects, Power BI, Pentaho BA)

Data Analytics toolset (SAS Viya)

Observability tools (Grafana, Dynatrace)Experience:

You should have experience as a senior data engineer delivering within large scale data analytics solutions and the ability to operate at all stages of the software engineering lifecycle, as well as some experience in the following

Awareness of DevOps culture and modern engineering practices

Experience of Agile Scrum based delivery

Proactive in nature, personal drive, enthusiasm, willingness to learn

Excellent communications skills including stakeholder management

Developing solutions within the given architecture and adhering to specified NFRs

Supporting other engineers within your team

Continually looking for ways to improve

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