URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration)

AWS Data Engineer - MigrationWe're seeking a strong & hands-on AWS Data Engineering contractor, ASAP start, for an urgent replacement contract 

Rate: Up to £(Apply online only) per day, Outside IR35 

Working Patterns: Remote-first, London (up to 1 day p/w on-site). 

Contract: 3-6 months (likley extension)

Sector: Financial Services

About: 

We're supporting a major cloud transformation programme focused on migrating a large-scale legacy ETL estate consiting of several thousand batch jobs from Ab Initio to a modern, serverless AWS data platform. 

This is a hands-on Senior Data Engineer role where you'll play a key part in defining migration patterns and delivering production-ready AWS Glue solutions. 

Person Requirments:

Strong AWS Data Engineer - ideally AWS Certified. 

Idelaly, you'll bring proven experience delivering Ab Initio → AWS Glue (PySpark) migration programmes

Strong hands-on AWS Data Engineering expertise, particularly AWS Glue, S3, Athena and serverless data platforms.

Advanced Python, PySpark and SQL skills.

Strong understanding of converting Ab Initio transformations/reformat logic into scalable PySpark solutions.

Experience building and optimising large-scale ETL/data pipeline solutions in AWS.

Excellent Spark performance tuning capabilities, including troubleshooting data skew, partitioning, memory and load-related issues.

Strong data warehousing and data modelling knowledge

Strong comminication skills. 

Nice to Have

Experience with Claude Code or AI-assisted code conversion tools.

Amazon MWAA (Airflow) experience.

AWS Certifications.

Experience working on large-scale legacy modernisation programmes.Please apply now - this hiring process should be expected to finish by next week. Adam Akhtar