Lead AWS Data Engineer: Scalable, Secure Data Platforms

Ubds; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday

EV leasing with salary sacrifice

Contributed Pension Scheme

Death in service cover

Job summary

UBDS Group seeks an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong AWS expertise to design, build and deliver scalable, secure data solutions for clients in regulated environments. You will own hands‑on engineering, engage with architects and client teams, and help establish engineering standards across projects.

You’ll design modern data platforms on AWS, implement data pipelines, and mentor other engineers while ensuring governance and security considerations are baked into every solution.

Qualifications

• Significant hands‑on experience as a Data Engineer in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience delivering data solutions on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data platforms and data pipelines within AWS.
• Develop robust ETL/ELT processes for ingesting, transforming and processing data from multiple sources.
• Design data models and storage approaches for analytical and operational requirements.
• Develop solutions using Python, SQL and modern data engineering frameworks.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code and automation for deployment and management of data platforms.
• Build data quality, monitoring and observability into engineering solutions.
• Ensure security, governance and data protection throughout solution design and delivery.
• Mentor and support other engineers and promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

AWS

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data modelling

Data pipelines

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Security governance

Tools

S3

Glue

Lambda

Athena

Redshift

EMR

Terraform

Job description

UBDS Group seeks an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong AWS expertise to design, build and deliver scalable, secure data solutions for clients in regulated environments. You will own hands‑on engineering, engage with architects and client teams, and help establish engineering standards across projects.

You’ll design modern data platforms on AWS, implement data pipelines, and mentor other engineers while ensuring governance and security considerations are baked into every solution.