Location: Leicestershire, hybrid
Salary: circa £70,000 - £80,000
Summary:
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Skills and Experience
- 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. Our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.