TEKsystems

AWS Engineer

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This role is for an AWS Engineer on a 6-month rolling contract, offering remote work with occasional travel to Liverpool. Key skills include Python, PySpark, SQL, and AWS services. Experience in data engineering and event-driven architectures is essential.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
July 21, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Teradata #DynamoDB #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Airflow #Terraform #Scala #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Spark (Apache Spark) #Athena #Data Engineering #AWS Glue #GitLab #Python #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Code Reviews #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Delta Lake #SNS (Simple Notification Service) #PySpark #Jenkins #AWS Lambda #Data Pipeline #SQS (Simple Queue Service) #Apache Iceberg #Cloud
Role description
We're supporting a major digital retail and embedded finance client who is scaling several high-profile data initiatives and is looking for AWS Data Engineers across Engineer, Senior and Lead levels. This isn't a traditional "bums on seats" project. The client is increasingly investing in outcome-based delivery, meaning you'll be working on business-critical platforms and helping shape solutions from design through to delivery. What you'll be doing: • Building scalable data pipelines on AWS • Developing event-driven, serverless solutions • Working with modern lakehouse and data engineering architectures • Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver measurable business outcomes • Contributing to high-quality engineering practices including testing, CI/CD and code reviews Core tech we're looking for: • Python • PySpark • SQL • AWS Lambda • AWS Glue • Athena • Event-driven architectures • Data streaming pipelines Nice-to-have experience: • EMR, S3, DynamoDB • Step Functions • MWAA / Airflow • EventBridge • SNS/SQS • Kinesis • Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake or Hudi • Terraform • GitLab / Jenkins • Lakehouse architectures • Teradata Core Details: • Remote with occasional travel to Liverpool (typically 2-3 days onsite when required) • 6-month rolling contract • Multiple hires across Engineer, Senior and Lead level If you're an AWS Data Engineer who enjoys building modern, cloud-native data platforms and wants to work on programmes with genuine business impact, I'd be keen to speak.