Data Engineer


Company:	Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary:	£520 to £520 a day
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, B4 6AJ
Working pattern:	Hybrid
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	30 Oct 2026

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Summary

Data Engineer - AWS / DataStage / Data Platforms

Rate: £520 per day

Location: UK, Remote

Working arrangement: Remote

Residency requirement: Minimum 5 years' continuous/unbroken UK residency - mandatory

Your new company

You'll be working with IBM on an urgent public-sector programme, supporting the delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms and solutions.

Your new role

As a Data Engineer, you'll work across the data lifecycle, with a strong focus on data ingestion, transformation, migration, warehousing and data management.You'll be working with AWS data technologies alongside IBM DataStage, helping to build and maintain robust data integration and transformation processes across large-scale data environments.

Key responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain enterprise-scale data ingestion and transformation processes.

Develop and support ETL and data migration pipelines across both batch and real-time processing.

Support the development and management of large-scale enterprise data warehouse solutions.

Build and maintain data integration and transformation processes using IBM DataStage.

Work with AWS technologies including Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, AWS Glue and Amazon QuickSight.

Develop and optimise SQL-based data transformations and work with relational databases.

Support database storage, management and wider data-platform activities.

Apply DevSecOps principles to data engineering and deployment processes.

Use GitHub/GitLab for source control and collaborative engineering.

Contribute to Java development where required within the wider data platform.

What you'll need to succeed

You'll need strong commercial data engineering experience, particularly across enterprise-scale ingestion, transformation, warehousing and database environments.

Essential skills and experience

IBM DataStage

Amazon Redshift

Amazon S3

AWS Glue

Amazon QuickSight

AWS data/cloud environments

ETL and data migration

Batch and real-time data processing

Enterprise data warehouse development

Large-scale data ingestion and transformation

Relational databases

Database / DBA knowledge

DevSecOps

Java

GitHub / GitLab

Minimum 5 years' continuous/unbroken UK residency

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