About the role
Role: Data Migration Development Lead (AWS)
Location: (Hybrid)
Long Term Contract
Job Description:
- 8+ years of experience in software development, data engineering, ETL, or data migration.
- 3+ years of experience leading technical development teams or major data migration workstreams.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS data and integration services.
- Advanced experience with AWS Glue, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, DMS, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Strong development skills in Python and SQL.
- Experience with PySpark/Spark for large-volume data transformation.
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT architecture and data migration patterns.
- Experience migrating data from relational databases, legacy systems, APIs, files, or enterprise applications.
- Strong knowledge of relational database concepts, data modeling, and SQL performance optimization.
- Experience implementing automated data-quality and reconciliation frameworks.
- Experience supporting large-scale production cutovers.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis skills.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery models.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise-scale transformation or modernization programs.
- Experience migrating data between legacy/on-premise platforms and cloud-based applications.
- Experience with Amazon Redshift, Aurora, RDS, EMR, Athena, and Lake Formation.
- Experience with CDC and near-real-time migration patterns.
- Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming technologies.
- Experience integrating AWS migration platforms with SaaS or enterprise applications such as Salesforce.
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD platforms.
- AWS certification such as AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Technical Skills
Area | Technologies --- | --- Cloud | AWS Storage | Amazon S3 ETL / Data Integration | AWS Glue, PySpark Database Migration | AWS DMS Development | Python, SQL Serverless | AWS Lambda Orchestration | AWS Step Functions Databases | Redshift, Aurora, RDS Analytics | Athena, EMR Monitoring | CloudWatch Security | IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager DevOps | Git, CI/CD, Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK Data Processing | Spark / PySpark Migration Controls | Data Quality, Reconciliation, Audit, Restart/Recovery
- Strong hands-on engineering capability, not only project coordination.
- Ability to translate complex source-to-target requirements into maintainable migration code.
- Strong understanding of data quality, reconciliation, lineage, and auditability.
- Ability to troubleshoot performance and data issues across large datasets.
- Ability to lead developers while remaining technically involved.
- Strong ownership of migration outcomes from development through production cutover.
- Ability to communicate technical risks and decisions clearly to architects, program leadership, application teams, and business stakeholders.
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