Senior Data Engineer

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

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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

Additional Information

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