Job Title: AWS Cloud Data Architect (IT - Information Systems Architect)
Location: McLean, VA 22102 / Memphis, TN 38117 (Hybrid Role)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract Role + Extension
Design and document AWS cloud database architectures that support performance, scalability, availability, security, governance, and cost optimization requirements.
Lead the modernization and migration of legacy on-premises databases and data platforms to AWS cloud services.
Architect and optimize data solutions using AWS services such as A-mazon RDS, A-mazon Aurora, A-mazon Redshift, A-mazon DynamoDB, A-mazon S3, AWS Glue, A-mazon Athena, AWS Database Migration Service, and related monitoring and security services.
Define database patterns for transactional, analytical, integration, and reporting, including OLTP, OLAP, and data lake workloads.
Develop architecture standards, reference patterns, design decision records, runbooks, deployment playbooks, and operational best practices.
Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, governance, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met.
Develop migration plans, proofs-of-concept, cutover strategies, rollback plans, validation approaches, and post-migration optimization activities.
Partner with security and governance teams to implement encryption, IAM, network isolation, auditing, logging, data retention, access controls, and compliance requirements.
Drive performance tuning and optimization through data modeling, indexing, partitioning, query tuning, workload management, capacity planning, and observability practices.
Implement and promote automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, schema migration practices, and repeatable deployment patterns for database-backed solutions.
Develop dashboards and operational metrics for database health, cost, usage, SLAs, reliability, and platform performance.
Collaborate with application, integration, analytics, and reporting teams to translate business requirements into practical database and data-platform solutions.
Review and provide recommendations on cloud architecture designs developed by vendors and solution partners.
Evaluate and recommend new technologies to support cloud data platform modernization and AI-enabled business initiatives.
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