Data Migration Engineer
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£54,900
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Description
Job Type
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
Closing Date
08/04/2026
Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.
We are seeking an experienced Data Migration Engineer to be responsible for the implementation and delivery of data migration and data archival solutions on our AWS-based data platform.
This role will support the definition of archival strategy, patterns, and design, working closely with Data Architecture, Security, and Project Management stakeholders, while taking full ownership of the engineering delivery. The focus is on building, executing, and assuring migration and archival solutions that ensure data accuracy, security, availability, and compliance throughout the data lifecycle. Strong technical leadership, delivery ownership, and the ability to operate effectively within a matrix delivery structure will be critical.
Location | Leeds
Type | Fixed-term contract until 31/12/2026
Salary | £70,618- £77,680
Key Responsibilities
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
Closing Date
08/04/2026
Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.
We are seeking an experienced Data Migration Engineer to be responsible for the implementation and delivery of data migration and data archival solutions on our AWS-based data platform.
This role will support the definition of archival strategy, patterns, and design, working closely with Data Architecture, Security, and Project Management stakeholders, while taking full ownership of the engineering delivery. The focus is on building, executing, and assuring migration and archival solutions that ensure data accuracy, security, availability, and compliance throughout the data lifecycle. Strong technical leadership, delivery ownership, and the ability to operate effectively within a matrix delivery structure will be critical.
Location | Leeds
Type | Fixed-term contract until 31/12/2026
Salary | £70,618- £77,680
Key Responsibilities
Data Migration/Archival Implementation & Delivery
- Support migration and archive strategy, patterns, and solution design, providing engineering input and feasibility feedback
- Own the implementation of data archival solutions, ensuring alignment with agreed retention, compliance, and availability objectives
- Build and maintain processes covering data movement and storage, access and retrieval mechanisms, integrity checking and validation
- Ensure archived data remains secure, discoverable, recoverable, and auditable
- Produce and maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational handover materials
- Act as the engineering authority for migration and archival delivery, ensuring solutions meet agreed designs and standards
- Implement and uphold best practices for:
- Data lifecycle management
- Migration and archival automation
- Data quality, reconciliation, and auditability
- Identify and escalate technical risks, issues, and dependencies early, proposing pragmatic mitigation approaches
Data Platform Engineering
- Build and operate solutions on an AWS-based data platform, using cloud-native and managed data engineering services
- Apply infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment, and environment management practices
- Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective, aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards
- Work effectively within a matrix delivery environment, collaborating with Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Project Delivery teams
- Translate business, regulatory, and architectural requirements into practical engineering solutions
- Manage delivery milestones, technical dependencies, and risks for migration and archival initiatives
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven experience delivering data migration and data archival implementations in complex or enterprise environments with regulated or sensitive data
- Exposure to modern cloud data architectures (e.g. Lakehouse, serverless, event-driven platforms)
- Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and operational monitoring for data workloads
- Experience working in large, complex, or regulated organisations
- Strong delivery mindset with a high level of technical ownership
- Detail-oriented, with a strong focus on data integrity and assurance
- Confident communicator, able to explain technical risks and constraints clearly
This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Some fantastic benefits SPW colleagues enjoy:
- Generous Holiday Entitlement: 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days.
- Health & Wellbeing: Company-paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening.
- Company Pension Contribution: A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay.
- Cash Allowance: Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support.
- Bonus Opportunity: Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months’ service)
- Financial Advice: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future.
To find out more, please visit https://www.spw.com/careers-at-spw/rewards-and-benefits
We support flexible working:
At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.
Ready to restart your career?
We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.
You belong here:
At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.
Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform t
We support flexible working:
At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.
Ready to restart your career?
We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.
You belong here:
At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.
Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform t
his role.