Cloud Data Engineer (AWS)

Cloud Data Engineer (AWS)

• Role Type: Permanent
• Salary Range: £90,000 to £100,000 (based on candidate experience)
• Hybrid Model: Mostly remote, candidates may be required to attend Central London office on occasion.
• Sector: Financial/Banking (previous experience in sector required)

About the Role:

My client, a leading UK based IT Services organisation, is seeking a highly experienced AWS focused Cloud Data Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis. The candidate will initially be placed on a major data scaling project for a globally operating financial services organisation.

The Engineer will utilise their expertise of a wide range of AWS Data technologies in order to ensure the continued development of the global data infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based (AWS) data infrastructure and pipelines that enable the efficient ingestion, storage, and analysis of large datasets.
• Produce scalable and resilient cloud-based data architectures/data lakes/data warehousing solutions and pipelines (Databricks)
• Ensure data is available, consistent, and optimized across all stages from ingestion to consumption
• Performing ETL/ELT/Orchestration processes on datasets & pipelines (eg Airflow/AWS Step Functions)
• Providing consultancy related to AWS Data Engineering when required
• Acting as expert in Infrastructure As Code (IaC) principles and best practices.

Essential Candidate Skills:

• Ideally 8+ years professsional experience
• Outstanding hands-on experience with the following data services technologies: Lambda, Athena, Glue, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, S3
• Experience in banking/financial environments
• Strong understanding of data lake principles, data governance, data quality, data warehousing, and data security best practices.
• Expertise in SQL, Python, and distributed data systems
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure As Code (IaC) principles and best practices.
• Strong experience leveraging large scale financial service datasets
• Strong communication skills, written & verbal and ability to provide consultancy
• Relevant Degree or Professional AWS Certifications

To be considered, please ensure you complete your application on the Computappoint website.

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