Senior AWS Data Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data platforms in AWS for analytical and operational workloads. You will develop end-to-end data pipelines, implement best practices, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure data quality and governance across environments.

The role requires strong Python/SQL capabilities, experience with AWS data services, and the ability to lead technical decisions while mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience as a Data Engineer in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable data platforms and data pipelines within AWS.
• Develop ETL/ELT processes for ingesting, transforming and processing data from multiple sources.
• Implement data solutions using AWS S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, Redshift, EMR and related technologies.
• 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 to deploy and manage data platforms.
• Build data quality, validation, monitoring and observability into engineering solutions.
• Address security, governance and data protection requirements throughout solution design and delivery.
• Collaborate with architects, cloud engineers, security specialists, SMEs and client teams.
• Engage clients and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, explain technical decisions and provide recommendations.
• Troubleshoot complex data, performance and integration issues across development and production environments.
• Define and promote data engineering standards, reusable patterns and best practices.
• Mentor and support engineers and encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to technical decisions and provide engineering leadership.

Skills

Data Engineering

AWS

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

Terraform

CI/CD

Data Modeling

Data Warehousing

Data Lakes

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS Athena

AWS Redshift

AWS EMR

Terraform

Spark

Kafka

Databricks

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data platforms in AWS for analytical and operational workloads. You will develop end-to-end data pipelines, implement best practices, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure data quality and governance across environments.

The role requires strong Python/SQL capabilities, experience with AWS data services, and the ability to lead technical decisions while mentoring engineers.