Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Data Development & Migration Engineer to support the transformation of our core data processing platform from a legacy system to a modern AWS cloud-native architecture.

This role is critical in ensuring new features are developed on AWS cloud and seamless migration of existing banking clients, maintaining data integrity, and validating end-to-end processing accuracy across systems. The ideal candidate has strong experience in data-intensive systems, migration programs, and financial/banking workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with engineering teams to understand cloud-native architecture and data pipelines
• Support testing of AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, Glue, RDS, EMR depending on stack)
• Ensure migration aligns with scalability, performance, and reliability goals
• Lead and support migration of existing clients from legacy systems to the AWS platform
• Develop and execute new features/functionality on the AWS platform
• Coordinate with client stakeholders to ensure smooth onboarding and minimal disruption
• Design and execute robust data validation frameworks to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency
• Perform reconciliation between legacy and target systems
• Validate batch processing, file generation, and downstream outputs for banks
• Build automated validation scripts and tools where applicable
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and client teams

Qualifications

• Strong experience with relational database
• Solid programming experience in Python/Scala (or similar technologies)
• Hands-on experience in data migration, ETL, and data transformation
• Experience with SQL and large-scale data validation
• Working knowledge of AWS ecosystem (S3, RDS, Lambda, Glue, etc.)
• Experience in cloud migration programs (legacy → cloud-native)
• Understanding of distributed systems and data pipelines
• Expertise in data validation techniques and reconciliation processes
• Experience in functional, system, and integration testing for data-heavy applications
• Familiarity with automation tools for testing and validation
• Experience in banking / financial services / payments systems preferred