AWS Data Architect

Position:  AWS Data Architect

Location: Plano, Texas

Seeking a hands-on Data Architect to design and evolve an AWS based data platform spanning streaming ingestion (Kafka), API/enterprise integration (MuleSoft), containerized data services (EKS), data lake on S3, interactive query with Athena, and analytics/reporting on Snowflake and Tableau.

Job Description:

• 8+ years in data architecture/engineering with 3+ years architecting on AWS.
• Proven design of S3 based data lakes with robust partitioning, lifecycle policies, and metadata/catalog strategy.
• Hands on experience with Kafka (topic design, schema evolution, consumer groups, throughput/latency tuning).
• Practical MuleSoft integration design (API led connectivity, RAML/OAS, policies, governance).

• Production experience with Amazon EKS for data/streaming microservices and connectors.
• Strong SQL and performance tuning with Athena; expertise selecting file formats/partitioning for cost/perf.
• Data warehousing on Snowflake (ELT, clustering, resource monitors, security) and delivering analytics via Tableau.
• Mastery of data modeling (3NF, dimensional/star, data vault), data contracts, and event modeling.
• Solid foundations in security, IAM/KMS, networking for data platforms, and cost management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with schema registries, stream processing frameworks, and change data capture.
• Background in data governance (catalog/lineage), metadata automation, and compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with IaC and DevOps practices for data (pipeline CI/CD, environment promotion, GitOps).
• Prior work enabling self-service analytics and establishing an enterprise semantic layer.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

• Architecture & Design
• Own the end to end data architecture across ingestion, storage, processing, serving, and visualization layers.
• Define canonical data models and domain data contracts; lead conceptual/logical/physical data modeling and schema design for batch and streaming use cases.
• Establish reference architectures and patterns for event driven and API led data integration (Kafka, MuleSoft).
• Design secure, multi account AWS topologies (VPC, IAM, KMS) for data workloads; enforce governance, lineage, and cataloging.
• Platform Enablement (New Platform Build out)
• Lead the blueprint and incremental rollout of a new AWS data platform, including landing raw curated zones on S3, Athena for ad hoc/interactive SQL, and Snowflake for governed analytics and reporting.
• Define platform SLAs/SLOs, cost guardrails, and chargeback/showback models; optimize storage/compute footprints.
• Partner with DevOps to run containerized data services on EKS (e.g., stream processors, microservices, connectors) and automate with CI/CD.