Senior Technical Lead
Project description This is a strategic data engineering engagement with our client to architect and plan the migration of their entire data processing and ETL estate from Matillion to AWS Glue — a foundational shift in how one of the world's largest financial market infrastructure companies handles its data pipelines. During this Mobilisation Phase, you'll work jointly with engineering teams to reverse-engineer the existing landscape, design the target-state architecture across every layer (infrastructure, data processing, workflows, dependencies, and operating model), and build the detailed delivery blueprint that will greenlight the full-scale migration. The work is technically rich and highly collaborative: you'll review and validate job inventories spanning hundreds of ETL workflows, define reusable migration patterns and templates, design a validation and reconciliation framework, run a proof-of-concept to stress-test the approach, and navigate rigorous internal governance — from Architectural Significance Assessments through Architectural Review Boards to a formal Gate 1 decision. Responsibilities
- Target-state architecture design — define and own the target-state AWS architecture across compute, data, and orchestration layers
- HLD/LLD ownership — produce and own High-Level Design and Low-Level Design documentation for migration workloads
- ARB submissions — prepare and present architecture proposals to the Architecture Review Board for approval
- Technical decisions — make and document key technical decisions across the migration program, balancing trade-offs (cost, performance, scalability)