Senior Data Platform Architect - AI-Ready Healthcare

Amazon Inc.; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in Data to join our Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in Switzerland. You will design and implement modern data platforms, build data products, and enable AI-ready data assets within regulated environments such as GxP and HIPAA.

You will collaborate across customer IT, business, and partner teams to deliver production-grade data solutions, architect knowledge graphs and ontologies, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, and/or data platform development with hands-on implementation of production data pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in modern data platform design patterns, including data lakes, lakehouses, data mesh, and zero-ETL patterns and streaming architectures, using services such as Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, Amazon Redshift, and zero-ETL integrations.
• Experience with architecting and engineering ontologies and knowledge graphs in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production-grade data pipelines, data lakes, lakehouses, and data mesh architectures within enterprise HCLS environments, integrating with legacy systems and existing data governance frameworks.
• Build data products that serve multiple downstream applications and use cases—from AI/ML model training to agentic AI systems, ensuring data quality, lineage, and reliability at scale.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy within fast-moving delivery engagements, making judgment calls on data modeling, pipeline design, and architecture without waiting for perfect specifications or constant oversight.
• Navigate complex data access, security, and privacy requirements unique to pharma and healthcare including GxP compliance constraints, HIPAA, and regulatory data governance frameworks.
• Architect contextual knowledge layers, including ontologies and knowledge graphs leveraging AWS Context and other tools to equip AI agents with the vocabulary and guardrails to reason accurately.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries to secure data access, understand source system context, and resolve data quality challenges with teams across customer IT, business, and partner organizations.
• Deliver iteratively when requirements are ambiguous, translating incomplete business needs into well-architected data solutions that can evolve as customer understanding matures.
• Apply AI-DLC methodologies to data delivery to redesign data workflows to become AI-native for accelerated scale and pace.

Skills

5+ years experience in data eng/arch

Data platform design patterns

Ontologies and knowledge graphs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science or equivalent

Tools

SageMaker Lakehouse

SageMaker Unified Studio

Amazon S3 Tables

Amazon Redshift

Zero-ETL integrations

Job description

Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in Data to join our Healthcare and Life Sciences practice in Switzerland. You will design and implement modern data platforms, build data products, and enable AI-ready data assets within regulated environments such as GxP and HIPAA.

You will collaborate across customer IT, business, and partner teams to deliver production-grade data solutions, architect knowledge graphs and ontologies, and