Opus Recruitment Solutions

Lead AWS Data Engineer

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This role is for a Lead AWS Data Engineer in London, focusing on finance, with a 12-month contract at an outside IR35 pay rate. Key skills include AWS, Java, Spark, and Snowflake, requiring experience in data engineering and team leadership.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 11, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Outside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
London
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Data Pipeline #AWS Glue #Java #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Spark (Apache Spark) #Data Engineering #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Apache Spark #Snowflake
Role description
Lead AWS Data Engineer | London | Finance | AWS | Java | Outside IR35 | Contract | 12 Months Opus is partnered with financial services client to deliver a major programme of work. You’ll join an established engineering group, working alongside internal teams to build a new reporting workflow, upgrade an existing pipeline, and lead a full data-sourcing uplift across multiple reporting workflows. The team will also be responsible for helping upgrade the framework for two critical internal workflows. This role will require you to be on site in either the London or Birmingham office 5 days per week, please only apply if you hit this criteria. Required Experience • Strong background in data engineering within distributed data environments • Hands-on expertise with AWS, Spark, Glue, and Snowflake • Experience building and optimising data pipelines & reporting workflows • Ability to work closely with internal engineering and controls teams • Experience upgrading or modernising existing workflows and frameworks • For Lead-level: prior experience leading engineering teams or workstreams Tech Stack • AWS (Glue, S3, Lambda, Step Functions) • Apache Spark • Snowflake • Java if you are interested in this role then please apply here or email me your most recent and up to date CV, along with your availability to Lead AWS Data Engineer | London | Finance | AWS | Java | Outside IR35 | Contract | 12 Months