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Senior Migrations Engineer

2 months, 3 weeks ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Senior
Database Administrator
Software Development
AWS Bash CI/CD Datadog MySQL PHP Prometheus Python SQL SQL Server Symfony
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Arbor

Arbor

Arbor is the leading cloud MIS provider in the UK, empowering schools and MATs to collaborate effectively, save time, and enhance pupil achievement through centralized data management and insightful analytics.

IT Services
51-250
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Description

  • Design, build, and evolve the Migrations Platform, a mission-critical PHP application, to support increasing school onboarding volumes.
  • Own platform SLAs, including migration success rates, throughput, and turnaround times, and improve reliability and quality.
  • Deliver services from design through production with end-to-end ownership, including observability through logs, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Automate repetitive tasks, validations, and data integrity checks to reduce operational toil for the Migration Operations team.
  • Support migration windows during weekends and school holidays, with flexibility during peak onboarding cycles.
  • Apply coding standards, write well-tested reusable code, and ensure services meet production readiness standards.
  • Provide estimates and feasibility input, contribute to release planning, and participate in post-release reviews.
  • Lead investigations into failed or delayed migrations, perform root cause analysis, and drive preventive improvements.
  • Mentor engineers and Migration Operations Engineers through code review, pairing, and constructive feedback.
  • Work closely with Onboarding, Support, Product Managers, and engineering teams to coordinate delivery and manage stakeholder communication.

Requirements

  • Considerable software engineering experience on production systems, ideally including data migration, ETL, or other data-heavy workloads.
  • Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP applications at scale, with Symfony experience as a strong plus.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, or AWS Aurora, plus SQL, data validation, and data integrity techniques.
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS and distributed cloud architectures.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language for automation, tooling, and data manipulation.
  • Hands-on experience with observability tools such as DataDog or Prometheus, plus incident and problem management practices.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, batch and asynchronous processing, queues, and resilience patterns.
  • Practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
  • Experience defining SLAs, tracking operational metrics, and driving service reliability improvements.
  • Experience supporting and mentoring fellow engineers through code review, pairing, and feedback.
  • Willingness to work flexibly during migration cycles that typically run over weekends and school holidays.
  • Experience using agentic AI, or an interest in improving productivity with agentic AI tools.

Benefits

  • Salary of £80,000 to £90,000.
  • Remote working location.
  • 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays, made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 company-wide days over Easter, Summer, and Christmas.
  • Life assurance at 3x annual salary.
  • Private dental insurance with Bupa and a salary sacrifice pension with Scottish Widows.
  • Enhanced family leave, including 20 weeks full pay for maternity and adoption leave and 6 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
  • Wellbeing support including mindfulness, lunch and learns, manager training, mental health first aid training, 24/7 virtual GP access, counselling, and personalised health checks.
  • Dedicated professional development budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.
  • Flexible working, plus access to Calm, Bippit financial wellbeing coaching, volunteer time, social events, and dog-friendly offices.

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