Senior Cloud Data Migration Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Database Migration Architect to guide customers and partners through planning, preparation and delivery of complex cloud transformation and migration projects. You will shape migration roadmaps with C-level stakeholders and collaborate with SMEs on pre-sales activities.

You will assess organizational readiness, define goals and business outcomes, and align a cloud vision with stakeholders to achieve results.

Qualifications

• Experience as technical specialist in design and architecture
• Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
• Data lake architecture and design (Lake Formation, S3-based architectures)
• Medallion architecture implementation (bronze/silver/gold layer design)
• 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 to customers and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure project success and work directly with customers’ technical resources to devise and recommend solutions.
• Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment and analyze on-premises database environments to open source engines.
• Consult for optimal design of database environments, analysing complex distributed production deployments, and make recommendations to optimize performance.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems

Skills

Technical specialist in design and arc

AWS services deployment

Data lake architecture

Medallion architecture

Data strategy and governance

Data modeling and analytics

Modern data platform design

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data warehousing (Redshift)

Data catalog governance

Tools

Glue

EMR

Redshift

Job description

AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Database Migration Architect to guide customers and partners through planning, preparation and delivery of complex cloud transformation and migration projects. You will shape migration roadmaps with C-level stakeholders and collaborate with SMEs on pre-sales activities.

You will assess organizational readiness, define goals and business outcomes, and align a cloud vision with stakeholders to achieve results.