Remote AWS Data Architect: Data Lake & Analytics Strategy

Leighton; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Annual leave 25 days

Flexible hours

Career development

Job summary

Leighton is seeking an experienced AWS Data Architect to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud-based data platforms. You will architect enterprise data solutions on AWS, focusing on S3 Data Lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, analytics with Redshift, and self-service analytics with Athena.

You will collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure data is governed, secure, and accessible for advanced reporting and analytics workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and operating Amazon S3 Data Lakes
• Hands-on experience with AWS Glue including Crawlers, Data Catalog, ETL Jobs and Workflows
• Experience designing analytical solutions using Amazon Redshift
• Strong knowledge of querying and optimising datasets using Amazon Athena
• Building and maintaining enterprise-scale ETL pipelines
• Data modelling for analytics, reporting, and cloud data platforms

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable Data Lake architectures using Amazon S3
• Define and maintain Data Lake structures including Raw, Curated, and Consumption zones
• Architect enterprise ETL and ELT solutions using AWS Glue and related AWS services
• Design and optimise analytical data models and reporting solutions using Amazon Redshift
• Enable self-service analytics through Amazon Athena and data cataloguing services
• Develop data ingestion frameworks for batch and near real-time workloads
• Establish data governance, security, metadata management and access controls
• Collaborate with data engineers, BI teams, product teams and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Define data architecture standards, best practices, and roadmaps
• Support migration of legacy data platforms into AWS-native architectures

Job description

Leighton is seeking an experienced AWS Data Architect to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud-based data platforms. You will architect enterprise data solutions on AWS, focusing on S3 Data Lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, analytics with Redshift, and self-service analytics with Athena.

You will collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure data is governed, secure, and accessible for advanced reporting and analytics workloads.