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On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Data Migration Lead (Inside IR35) for a 14 Month contract based REMOTELY.

Context: Innovate UK is implementing a Data Strategy with new data and AI solutions to improve productivity, automate processes, and enhance customer experience. The Data Migration Lead will play a key role in migrating from a legacy platform to a new AWS data platform.

Job Purpose: Lead the migration to the new AWS data platform, providing both technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise. This role requires strong stakeholder engagement, migration planning and hands-on involvement in ETL development, data model migration, and integration functionalities. You will manage external suppliers and internal teams, oversee the migration pipeline, and ensure seamless collaboration to drive the successful transition to AWS.

As a Data Migration Lead your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead and manage the data migration pipeline and team resources.
• Serve as a technical lead, overseeing migration activities and managing both internal teams and external suppliers.
• Provide hands-on engineering expertise, including Terraform deployments for AWS infrastructure.
• Lead the design and implementation of AWS migration tasks (e.g., S3, Glue, API Gateway, Batch, Lambda).
• Design and manage changes to data models, ETLs, and other integration functionality.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to assess migration gaps and track progress to completion.
• Build and optimise back-end ETL systems and data platforms.
• Ensure effective deployment standards and manage handover of BAU activities.
• Work closely with external suppliers to ensure deliverables are met, challenging them when necessary.
• Address supplier issues and ensure clarity and delivery of project goals.

Essential:

• Recent experience with AWS migration projects.
• Extensive hands-on and leadership capabilities, including experience leading and mentoring teams in data engineering and migration projects.
• Agile experience with strong hands-on experience in Python, Java, and AWS development.
• Experience in Terraform deployments, particularly for AWS infrastructure.
• Proven expertise in data engineering with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Experience deploying and operating AWS Databases (RDS, Aurora, Athena, Dynamo) and AWS DevOps knowledge.
• Proficiency in SQL and large-scale database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB).
• Ability to build and optimise data sets, 'big data' data pipelines and architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure components like S3, Route53, and CloudFormation.
• Confident in stakeholder engagement and able to articulate architectural decisions.

Desirable:

• Experience with data visualization tools like Power BI, QuickSight, or Alteryx.
• Development skills in shell, java, R and/or other data-oriented languages.
• Exposure to MuleSoft or AWS API Gateway for API integrations.
• Experience using Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence).

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Commitment 

UKRI guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".