AWS Data Engineer at Opus Recruitment Solutions, London Area, £500-£525 per day

URGENT | AWS Data Engineer - Migration

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

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 (likely extension)

Sector: Financial Services

About:

We're supporting a major cloud transformation programme focused on migrating a large-scale legacy ETL estate consisting 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 Requirements:

• Strong AWS Data Engineer - ideally AWS Certified.
• Ideally, 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 communication 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