Job#: 3058752 Job Description: AWS Cloud Architect / Data Architect
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Location: Remote
Target Pay: $60 / hr
Clearance: Active Top Secret
Role Overview
An experienced AWS Cloud Architect / Data Architect is required to design, modernize, and support enterprise data platforms across AWS and on-premises environments. The selected professional will lead enterprise cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions. Expertise in cloud migration, hybrid architecture, database modernization, and secure integration between cloud-hosted and legacy applications is essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement enterprise-scale database and cloud solutions across AWS and on-premises environments.
- Lead migrations from legacy on-premises databases and applications to AWS cloud platforms.
- Design hybrid cloud architectures enabling secure communication between cloud-based and on-premises applications.
- Create enterprise data models, ERDs, and target-state architecture roadmaps.
- Implement highly available, secure, and scalable database solutions.
- Optimize database performance through tuning, indexing, capacity planning, and workload analysis.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and business teams to align architecture with organizational goals.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on cloud modernization and data architecture initiatives.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
Experience: Eight or more years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Data Architecture, Database Architecture, or related technical leadership roles, with proven experience migrating enterprise applications and databases from on-premises environments to AWS. Strong experience designing hybrid solutions where cloud applications securely communicate with on-premises systems is required.
Technical Skills: Proficiency with AWS services including EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). Strong expertise in database systems such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Azure SQL Managed Instance, alongside Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Jenkins, PowerShell, and Python.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- AWS Database Specialty Certification.
- Azure Solutions Architect Certification.
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