Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration)
URGENT | AWS Data Engineer (migration) at Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd, based in Parrett Works, South West England, paying £500 - £525 per day. This is a contract role.
- Pay
- £500 - £525 per day
- Hours and contract
- Contract · On site
- Location
- Parrett Works, South West England
- Closing date
- Sector
- Data Analyst
- Immediate start
Bang in line with the market for data analyst
Reference 57410226
About the role
Rate: Up to £500-525 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.
Reference: 57410226 · Posted 1 week ago · Closes 12 Nov 2026 · Listed via Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
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