AWS Data Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
UK
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Python SQL Data Modeling AWS Glue Redshift S3 Athena Terraform

FULL DESCRIPTION

AWS Data Engineer

Job ID: 151775

Type: Contract /permanent

Experience: 5+ years experience

No. of Positions: 1

Travel Required: Yes

Location: UK

Who we are

Headquartered in the UK in 2016 and with branch offices in India and France, [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is renowned as one of the leading IT consulting services companies serving clients all across the globe. With a team of strategic minds and well-experienced professionals in various technologies, we provide IT consulting services in various domains such as Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Science, etc. Adding to this, we have a proven track record of serving various industries such as Banking & Finance, Healthcare, Public Services, Insurance, Charity, and Retail. Thus, we help businesses make the right decisions and thrive with our innovative solutions through our IT consulting services.

Furthermore, [Employer hidden] is also recognized as the organization that trains and empowers individuals on various technologies and thus encourages them to build their careers.

What will your job look like

  • Help build and integrate the next gen data platform
  • Analyse and aggregate data into new data models for use by the rest of the company
  • Write complex ETL in SQL/Python/PySpark to generate reports from a variety of sources.
  • Make sure that data is secure, reliable and easily accessible across the company by leveraging the latest technologies
  • Build tools for automation, monitoring and alerting of the data pipelines.
  • Write Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Collaborate in design and problem-solving sessions.
  • Suggest improvements and introduce best practices into the team

Requirements

  • This is a mid/senior level role with strong skills in Python, SQL and data-modelling
  • Good experience developing, architecting and scaling data services
  • Strong ownership and self-drive from the first line of code to the impact on the end user. If you like autonomy and being in the driver’s seat, we would love to have you in our team!
  • Strong product mindset and a good ability to understand product context and develop success metrics
  • Redshift, Glue, S3, Athena,Step Function, Lambda, SQL/Python/PySpark, Tableau / Power BI
  • Previous experience introducing best practices or processes into a team and a strong desire to help others succeed
  • Good architectural design skills and being able to discuss the merits and trade-offs of using any particular design approach and technologies
  • Bonus: Experienced working in a AWS Data Stack (AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Athena)
  • Bonus: Experienced using PostgreSQL
  • Bonus: Experienced using Apache Spark for data processing
  • Bonus: Experienced with data streaming applications middleware (e.g., Kafka, Rabbitmq)
  • Bonus: Experienced using Terraform for Infrastructure as code
  • Experience in Redshift database – query optimization for better performance, manage large tables partitions
  • Must have experience working with AWS tools and services (Glue, EMR, Athena, Step Function)
  • Data Pipelining skills – Data blending using python and SQL
  • Develop & support ETL pipelines
  • Develop data models that are optimized for business understand-ability and usability
  • Develop and optimize data tables using best practices for partitioning, compression, parallelization, etc.
  • Develop and maintain metadata, data catalogue, and documentation for internal business customers
  • Help internal business customers troubleshoot and optimize SQL and ETL solutions to solve reporting problems
  • Work with internal business customers and partner technical teams to gather and document requirements for data publishing and consumption
  • Experience in Documentation – create technical specifications and able to translate existing technical designs into data transformation
  • Visualisation experience – Tableau / Power BI
  • Development/Delivery methodologies – Agile Scrum DevOps

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