Lead Data Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-25
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Software Development
Data Engineering, AWS
Lead Data Engineer | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, 2 days pw Edinburgh/Glasgow | Starting ASAP Day Rate: £DOE
About the role:
Harvey Nash's Pub Sec client is seeking an experienced AWS Data Engineer to design, develop, and support scalable data warehouse and cloud-based data solutions. The successful candidate will work within an Agile Scrum team, delivering end-to-end data engineering solutions, ETL pipelines, and analytics platforms that support business intelligence and digital applications.
You will:- Design, build, and maintain cloud-based data warehouse and data lake solutions on AWS.
- Develop and support ETL/ELT processes for data ingestion, transformation, and integration.
- Build and optimise data pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark, and AWS services.
- Develop serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Event Bridge, SQS, and SNS.
- Support and enhance existing data platforms, applications, and integrations.
- Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to deliver solutions in 2-week Agile sprints.
- Create and maintain dashboards, reporting, and monitoring solutions using Quick Sight, Power BI, Grafana, and ELK.
- Implement data quality, security, governance, and operational monitoring best practices.
Strong experience with AWS data and analytics services including:
- Redshift
- Glue
- S3
- Athena
- Lambda
- Step Functions
- RDS/Aurora
- DynamoDB
- DMS
- EMR
- Cloud Watch
- IAM
Strong programming experience in Python and SQL.
Experience with Spark (PySpark preferred) and large-scale data processing.
Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse solutions.
Knowledge of API integration and microservices architectures.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland.
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