Senior AWS Data Architect – Cloud Data Platform Leader

HireOn; Karachi Division; Hybrid; PKR 400,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

HireOn is recruiting a Principal AWS Data Architect on behalf of its client to steer enterprise data engineering and cloud data platform initiatives. This role blends architectural leadership with hands-on AWS expertise to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable data ecosystems.

The successful candidate will own data platform architecture, guide engineering teams, and ensure data solutions meet performance, governance, security, and business requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise data platform design and cloud architecture on AWS.
• Strong portfolio of data solutions built on AWS.
• Ability to design complex data pipelines and distributed processing workflows.
• Proven leadership guiding data engineering teams and aligning architecture with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Data Architecture: Develop enterprise data platform blueprints and define architecture patterns for scalable AWS-based data environments.
• Data Pipeline Engineering: Design ingestion, transformation, and processing workflows for high-volume datasets.
• AWS Processing Frameworks: Build ETL and distributed processing solutions using AWS Glue, EMR, and Lambda.
• Workflow Automation: Develop orchestrated data workflows and dependencies using MWAA (Airflow).
• Data Storage & Analytics: Architect data lake/warehouse with S3 and Redshift for analytical workloads.
• Data Modeling: Create data models for relational, dimensional, analytical, and NoSQL use cases including DynamoDB.
• Governance & Data Discovery: Implement metadata management and governance with Glue Data Catalog and DataZone.
• Security & Compliance: Define access control, encryption, and secure data handling across cloud environments.
• Platform Reliability: Implement monitoring and logging via CloudWatch for observability and resilience.
• Performance & Cost Management: Optimize processing workloads and AWS resource utilization.

Skills

AWS Glue

Amazon EMR

AWS Lambda

Amazon MWAA (Apache Airflow)

Amazon S3

Amazon Redshift

Amazon DynamoDB

AWS DataZone

Amazon EC2

Amazon CloudWatch

Job description

HireOn is recruiting a Principal AWS Data Architect on behalf of its client to steer enterprise data engineering and cloud data platform initiatives. This role blends architectural leadership with hands-on AWS expertise to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable data ecosystems.

The successful candidate will own data platform architecture, guide engineering teams, and ensure data solutions meet performance, governance, security, and business requirements.