Lead Data Lakehouse Architect (AWS S3/Iceberg)

Venquis; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 661,000 - 881,000; Full time

Job summary

Venquis is seeking a highly experienced Lead Data Lakehouse Architect to provide end‑to‑end architectural leadership for the AWS S3 Lakehouse program in the UAE (Dubai-Abu Dhabi). You will define standards, scalability, performance, and governance across the data ecosystem.

The role leads architectural forums, designs for Iceberg tables and medallion architecture, specifies data modeling practices, metadata and lineage, and collaborates with Data Factory squads, data quality teams, and senior

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture roles with Lakehouse implementations.
• Experience with AWS S3, Glue, Athena, EMR.
• Strong understanding of Medallion architecture and data modeling.
• Proven leadership in architectural forums and governance.
• Ability to define metadata, lineage, and data quality frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end architectural leadership for AWS S3 Lakehouse implementation.
• Define and enforce data architecture standards.
• Lead design for Iceberg tables and data standards.
• Collaborate with platform teams and governance leads.
• Create reusable design patterns and templates for consistency.

Skills

Lakehouse architecture

Medallion architecture

Data modeling

Schema evolution

Partitioning strategies

Table optimization

AWS services

Apache Iceberg

Spark

OpenMetadata

Automation

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Jira

OpenMetadata

Job description

Venquis is seeking a highly experienced Lead Data Lakehouse Architect to provide end‑to‑end architectural leadership for the AWS S3 Lakehouse program in the UAE (Dubai-Abu Dhabi). You will define standards, scalability, performance, and governance across the data ecosystem.

The role leads architectural forums, designs for Iceberg tables and medallion architecture, specifies data modeling practices, metadata and lineage, and collaborates with Data Factory squads, data quality teams, and senior