AWS Data Migration Lead

Berkeley Square IT; Swindon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK technology firm seeks an experienced AWS Data Migration Lead to manage the migration from a legacy platform to a new AWS data platform. You will lead design and development of data integrations and ensure quality during migration. Candidates must have significant AWS experience, strong SQL skills, and a background in Agile environments. The ideal candidate will be proactive in managing timelines and requirements while addressing discrepancies during the transition.

Qualifications

• Comfortable working in an Agile rapidly changing environment.
• Recent AWS migration project experience.
• Strong Terraform experience.
• Excellent SQL experience on various platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the external supplier and internal resources in data migration.
• Manage the data migration pipeline and ensure quality targets.
• Deep dive into migration tasks for multiple technologies.
• Arbitrate between external and internal business needs.

Skills

Agile

AWS

SQL

Python

DevOps

Data Migration

Terraform

MongoDB

MySQL

Oracle

PostgresSQL

Design

Networking

Implementation Timelines

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS API Gateway

AWS Batch

S3

Mulesoft

Terraform

Job description

The Role

My client is seeking an experienced AWS Data Migration Lead to lead the external supplier and internal resources in a co-delivery team to migrate off the legacy platform onto the newly built AWS data platform supporting the organisation. The platform migration lead will lead the design and development of back-end data integrations (ETL functions) and address all data quality/discrepancies between the legacy and new platforms to support other teams application delivery.

• Manage the data migration pipeline, and external supplier, matrix manage internal data team resources to achieve migration quality targets
• Lead migration design and implementation for the Integration Platform (S3, AWS Glue, AWS API Gateway, AWS Batch, Python, Mulesoft) and design and implement new integrations as required
• Deep dive into all migration tasks for the Data Platform across all technologies (AWS Postgres, Data Lake, MySql, Lambda functions, AWS batch, Python)
• Work with the Data Platform Leads (engineering, visualisation, and product owner) to plan transition timelines and react to changing business needs
• Arbitrate between external supplier needs and internal business priorities, reaching pragmatic solutions that resolve migration challenges within business timeline context

Candidates Must have the following skills / experience:

• Comfortable working in an Agile rapidly changing environment
• Recent ASW migration project experience
• Strong Terraform experience
• Excellent SQL experience on various platforms (SQL, PostgresSQL, PL/SQL etc)
• Experience of several of MySQL, Oracle, SQL, Postgres, RDS, Aurora, Athena, MongoDB or other similar large scale database technologies.

CVs to Nick ASAP for immediate review

Required Skills:

• Agile
• CVS
• React
• AWS
• Data Migration
• PL/SQL
• DevOps
• Timelines
• Networking
• MongoDB
• Integration
• Databases
• Oracle
• Security
• MySQL
• Java
• Python
• SQL
• Design
• Engineering
• Business