Position: Cloud Solutions Architect – Databricks & AWS (Banking/Capital Markets)
Location: Remote
Mode: Contract
This role focuses on architecting secure, scalable, cloud-native data platforms on AWS using Databricks, specifically for banking, investment, and capital markets workloads. The architect acts as a bridge between business and engineering, leading cloud migrations, defining deployment patterns, and ensuring regulatory compliance, data security, and performance across large-scale financial systems.
Core Responsibilities (Condensed & Impact-Oriented)
- Architect end-to-end AWS + Databricks data platforms for financial services use cases
- Design and govern cloud-native and migration architectures (re-platform, re-architect, hybrid)
- Lead secure, compliant, and scalable data lake/lakehouse implementations
- Define and standardize deployment and migration patterns
- Guide teams on best practices for data engineering, CI/CD, and IaC
- Collaborate with business, risk, security, and engineering stakeholders
- Ensure platforms align with financial regulations and audit requirements
- Produce clear architectural documentation for global reuse and support
Mandatory Technical Skill Areas (Mapped Clearly)
Cloud & Architecture
- AWS architecture design (VPC, IAM, KMS, networking, security controls)
- Cloud migration strategies and patterns
- Cloud-native application and data architectures
Databricks & Data Engineering
- Databricks platform (clusters, jobs, workflows, notebooks)
- Delta Lake, ETL/ELT pipelines, batch & real-time processing
- Data lake / lakehouse design patterns
- Performance optimization and cost management
DevOps & Automation
- CI/CD pipelines for data platforms
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
- Automated provisioning, deployments, and environment management
Financial Services Domain
- Banking / Investment / Capital Markets data use cases
- Exposure to regulatory, governance, lineage, audit, and security controls
- Mission-critical, low-latency, high-availability systems
Good-to-Have Differentiators
- Databricks Certification (Associate or Professional)
- AWS Solutions Architect or Data certifications
- MLflow, advanced Databricks features
- Multi-cloud exposure (Azure / Google Cloud Platform)
- Strong understanding of financial data compliance and governance
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