Senior AWS Data Engineer: Cloud Data Platform & Ingestion

Forsyth Barnes; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes, partnering with a market-leading technology business, is delivering a major Analytics & AI transformation. The role centers on designing and building a modern AWS data platform and migrating data from a large on-premise estate into AWS to enable enterprise reporting and AI initiatives.

The Senior AWS Data Engineer will lead ingestion and data modelling efforts, implement CDC, event-driven and batch pipelines, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on.

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience as an AWS Data Engineer or Data Platform Engineer.
• Strong experience working with AWS services including S3, Glue, Athena, EMR and Lambda.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills.
• Strong data modelling expertise, including dimensional modelling and analytics-ready data design.
• Experience delivering end-to-end cloud data platforms from ingestion through to consumption.
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers whilst remaining hands-on technically.
• Strong understanding of modern Data Engineering principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise AWS-native data pipelines and cloud data platform capabilities.
• Deliver ingestion solutions using CDC, event-driven and batch processing patterns.
• Build scalable ETL/ELT frameworks and reusable data products using Python and SQL.
• Support migration of data from a large on-premise estate into AWS.
• Design and implement robust data models supporting analytics and reporting.
• Develop data quality, observability, governance and monitoring frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with Architects, Engineers, Data Scientists and Product teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring whilst remaining hands-on.
• Support performance optimisation, cloud cost management and operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Leadership & mentoring

Cloud data engineering

SQL proficiency

Python scripting

Tools

S3

Glue

Athena

EMR

Lambda

Python

SQL

Job description

Forsyth Barnes, partnering with a market-leading technology business, is delivering a major Analytics & AI transformation. The role centers on designing and building a modern AWS data platform and migrating data from a large on-premise estate into AWS to enable enterprise reporting and AI initiatives.

The Senior AWS Data Engineer will lead ingestion and data modelling efforts, implement CDC, event-driven and batch pipelines, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on.