Senior Cloud Data & AWS Transformation Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Database Migration Architect to guide customers through complex cloud transformation and migration projects. You will work with senior stakeholders to define goals and map a cloud vision, selecting solutions across on-prem to Aurora-PostgreSQL, Redshift, and other AWS services.

In this role you will collaborate with Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams, assess organizational readiness, and drive successful delivery while maintaining

Qualifications

• Experience as technical specialist in design and architecture.
• Experience implementing AWS services in distributed environments.
• Data lake architecture and design (Lake Formation, S3-based).
• Medallion architecture implementation (bronze/silver/gold).
• Data strategy and governance frameworks.
• Data modeling and schema design for analytics workloads.
• Modern data platform design and implementation.
• ETL/ELT pipeline development and optimization (Glue, EMR).
• Data warehousing solutions (Redshift).
• Data catalog management and metadata governance.

Responsibilities

• Represent AWS in customers' environments and drive discussions with senior personnel about trade-offs and risk.
• Collaborate with Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure project success.
• Analyze on-premises DB environments and compare to Aurora-PostgreSQL/MySQL or Redshift.
• Design optimal database environments, analyze distributed deployments, and optimize performance.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

Skills

Technical specialist

AWS services experience

Data architecture

ETL/ELT pipelines

Tools

Lake Formation

S3

Redshift

Glue

EMR

Job description

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Database Migration Architect to guide customers through complex cloud transformation and migration projects. You will work with senior stakeholders to define goals and map a cloud vision, selecting solutions across on-prem to Aurora-PostgreSQL, Redshift, and other AWS services.

In this role you will collaborate with Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams, assess organizational readiness, and drive successful delivery while maintaining