Senior Data Engineer

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Keyrus in Hong Kong is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our team and support a major banking database migration programme, focusing on migrating PostgreSQL workloads to AWS. This is a hands-on role for someone who can drive production‑critical database or cloud migration projects within banking.

The ideal candidate has 4–7+ years in data or database engineering, strong PostgreSQL/SQL skills, and proven experience migrating databases to AWS using RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS DMS.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in Data Engineering, Database Engineering or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on PostgreSQL and SQL expertise.
• Proven experience migrating PostgreSQL or enterprise databases to AWS.
• Strong experience with RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
• Experience with production-critical database migration programmes.
• Strong understanding of data validation, reconciliation, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Banking / financial services experience strongly preferred.
• Experience delivering similar cloud or database migration programmes within a bank is a strong advantage.
• Python, Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support PostgreSQL → AWS database migration activities
• Assess databases, schemas, dependencies and workloads
• Design and execute migration strategies using AWS RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS DMS
• Manage data migration, validation, reconciliation and performance optimisation
• Support testing, cutover, production deployment and stabilisation
• Work closely with application, cloud, infrastructure, security and architecture teams
• Ensure data integrity, security and minimal disruption to critical banking systems

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL

AWS

Data engineering

Tools

AWS DMS

RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Keyrus is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team in Hong Kong and support a major banking database migration programme, focused on migrating PostgreSQL workloads to AWS.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who has experience delivering production‑critical database or cloud migration projects, ideally within banking or financial services.

What you’ll be working on:

• Lead and support PostgreSQL → AWS database migration activities
• Assess databases, schemas, dependencies and workloads
• Design and execute migration strategies using AWS RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS DMS
• Manage data migration, validation, reconciliation and performance optimisation
• Support testing, cutover, production deployment and stabilisation
• Work closely with application, cloud, infrastructure, security and architecture teams
• Ensure data integrity, security and minimal disruption to critical banking systems

What we’re looking for:

• 4–7+ years in Data Engineering, Database Engineering or a similar role
• Strong hands‑on PostgreSQL and SQL expertise
• Proven experience migrating PostgreSQL or enterprise databases to AWS
• Strong experience with RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• Experience with production‑critical database migration programmes
• Strong understanding of data validation, reconciliation, performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Banking / financial services experience strongly preferred
• Experience delivering similar cloud or database migration programmes within a bank is a strong advantage
• Python, Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS certifications are a plus

The ideal candidate is a senior, hands‑on engineer who can independently drive migration activities and is comfortable operating within the security, governance and change‑management requirements of a banking environment.