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Temporary Data Engineer - Banking/Payments
£34,000 - 72,000
Love Success Recruitment
Waterloo Road 91, London
£34,000 - 72,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong expertise in IBM DB2 on Mainframe, including:
- Indexing, clustering, partitioning, and archiving
- Query optimisation in high-throughput environments
- Experience working with large-scale, high-volume systems where extraction must not impact live processing
- Proven ability in:
- Extracting data from complex and congested schemas
- Designing non-intrusive extraction techniques
- Managing data lineage and traceability
- Hands-on delivery of data migration in banking, ideally within payments systems or other mission-critical transaction platforms
- Experience working in controlled production environments with strict risk governance
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
- Self-sufficient and proactive problem solver
- Comfortable working with incomplete information
- Strong communication skills with a focus on early risk escalation
Responsibilities
- Deliver data migration activities within banking or payments systems, ensuring zero disruption to live transaction processing
- Design and execute safe data extraction strategies from complex, high-volume, and highly concurrent tables
- Perform data mapping, lineage analysis, and documentation
- Lead data reconciliation and validation of migrated datasets
- Develop and optimise ETL processes within controlled production environments
- Ensure production safety, minimising risk to BAU payment processing
- Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies, with clear and timely escalation
Description
We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to support a critical data migration programme within a banking environment. This role focuses on high-volume payments systems, requiring deep expertise in IBM DB2 on mainframe, safe data extraction, and end-to-end migration assurance. We offer a dynamic environment where flexibility and adaptability are key, especially in the early programme phases.
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