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Senior Migrations Engineer

2 hours, 8 minutes 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 mission-critical Migrations Platform used to onboard new schools.
  • Own migration SLAs, including success rates, throughput, and turnaround times, and drive reliability improvements.
  • Take services from design through production with end-to-end ownership, including observability and production readiness.
  • 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.
  • Write well-tested, reusable code and uphold coding standards and architectural best practices.
  • Provide accurate technical estimates, contribute to planning and release management, and participate in post-release reviews.
  • Lead investigations into failed or delayed migrations, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
  • Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and constructive feedback.
  • Collaborate with Onboarding, Support, Product Managers, and engineering teams to coordinate delivery and manage customer expectations.

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; Symfony experience is 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 experience with AWS and distributed cloud architectures.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language for automation and data manipulation.
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and 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 improving service reliability.
  • Experience supporting and mentoring 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 interest in improving productivity with agentic AI tooling.

Benefits

  • Salary of £80,000 - £90,000.
  • 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 paid at 3x annual salary.
  • Comprehensive wellness support through AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks.
  • Private dental insurance with Bupa.
  • Salary sacrifice pension provided by Scottish Widows.
  • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave at 20 weeks full pay, plus paternity leave at 6 weeks full pay.
  • Dedicated professional development budget for CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.
  • Flexible working arrangements, with the role open to discussion around what flexibility means to you.
  • Access to mindfulness, lunch and learns, manager training, mental health first aid training, Calm, and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching.
  • Volunteer for a charity of your choice for one day each year.
  • Dog-friendly offices and social events that bring teams together and celebrate success.

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