Data Migration Engineer

83zero
Lime Street, City And County Of the City Of London, United Kingdom
Last month
£70,000 – £90,000 pa

Salary

£70,000 – £90,000 pa

Posted
14 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Data Migration Engineer

Location: Hybrid - 1-2 days a week in London

Salary: £70-90k + 10% Bonus

Job Type: Permanent

Sponsorship: Not Available

Role Summary:

We are looking for a Data Migration Engineer to help us achieve a multi-system, multi-client, company-wide migration. In this role you will work closely with the owners of our legacy platforms to understand their data, then dive right in and create the queries and processes necessary to move everything to the new. As migration work wraps up, the role will transition to leveraging Airflow and other tooling to automate operational and financial processes. This is a great role for exceptionally outgoing individuals as all work will require extensive collaboration with engineers and stakeholders across many teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with engineers of legacy systems to understand what data is available and the form it takes

Design queries & scripts to extract and transform data from the old to the new

Collaborate with our Principal Data Engineer to come up with a cold-storage solution for data that will need to persist for regulatory reasons

Work with our solutions architect to design the data process' to be run the day each partner is migrated

Build and maintain ETLs and workflow automation using Snowflake and Apache Airflow

Thoroughly document all learnings and work-in-progress using version control

Implement data quality checks and reconciliations at all steps in the process

Collaborate with platform/infra teams on security, access controls, and secrets management

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or backend engineering with significant data pipeline ownership

Demonstrated past success in a stakeholder management heavy data role

Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical knowledge to non-technical colleagues

Hands-on experience building and operating production workflows in Apache Airflow

Hands-on experience delivering production-grade transformations in dbt, including tests and documentation

Strong SQL skills and experience working across multiple SQL dialects.

Experience with data modeling and warehousing concepts (facts/dimensions, slowly changing dimensions, incremental loading).

Proficiency with Git-based workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

Have used Azure cloud services previously

Experience with streaming/event-driven systems e.g., Kafka/Kinesis

Experience with infrastructure as code e.g., Terraform and containerization e.g., Docker/Kubernetes

Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, lineage, and privacy/security best practices.

Use of SQLServer in a past role.

Familiarity with Snowflake and/or PostgreSQL

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