Senior AWS Data Architect

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

AWS
ECS
Docker
PostgreSQL
PySpark
Python
ETL
Tableau
JIRA

Job Details

Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Senior AWS Data Architect to join our team. In this role, you will design, implement, and optimize scalable data architectures on AWS, ensuring robust data pipelines and efficient data storage and retrieval. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and contribute to a data-driven decision-making environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Data Architecture Design: Develop, maintain, and optimize complex data architectures using AWS services such as Redshift, RDS, S3, Glue, and Athena, and Snowflake, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
  • Data Integration & ETL Pipelines: Design and build ETL workflows using AWS Glue, Lambda, and other tools to ingest data from various sources into a unified data environment.
  • Data Governance & Security: Implement data governance best practices, ensuring data quality, security, compliance, and proper access controls within AWS and Snowflake environments.
  • Database Management: Oversee the setup, configuration, and maintenance of data stores, including both relational and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, Redshift, and Snowflake.
  • Performance Optimisation: Monitor and improve data performance and storage costs, implementing best practices for data partitioning, compression, and caching on AWS and Snowflake.
  • Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and provide reliable solutions.
  • Documentation & Standards: Document data architectures, data flows, and standards to ensure consistent and repeatable processes across teams.

Professional Experience

  • Over 10+ years experience in designing, planning, maintaining, and implementing large data platforms and applications both on-premises and in cloud.
  • Experienced as AWS Cloud Solutions Architect or Big Data Architect, Senior Software Engineer
  • Skilled in Agile Scrum SDLC, delivering operations, specifications, development, testing, and maintenance.
  • Strong experience with ETL Technologies using AWS, PySpark, Informatica etc
  • Expert in product support and analytics insights (BI), data mining, modeling, algorithm development, and simulations.

Technical Skills

  • Cloud & Orchestration: AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53, ELB, CloudWatch), ECS, Docker, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk.
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, Datawarehouse.
  • Languages: PySpark, Python, SQL, R.
  • ETL & Big Data: Informatica PowerCenter, Kafka
  • BI Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Splunk.
  • Project Tools: JIRA, HP ALM.
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