AWS Cloud Architect — Data Platform & AI Solutions

Hilton; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Part time

Job summary

Hilton seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to design a next-gen cloud data lake and platform powering procurement analytics and AI-enabled capabilities. You will collaborate across stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure cloud data solutions in a hybrid McLean, VA or Memphis, TN setting.

You will lead migrations, design patterns, and automation, building dashboards to monitor health, cost, and performance while ensuring governance and security compliance across the data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a cloud architect or senior database architect with a focus on AWS cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading cloud migration projects, including legacy database modernization and platform transitions.
• Experience developing architecture documentation, standards, and operational best practices in an enterprise environment.
• Background working cross-functionally with business stakeholders, engineering teams, security teams, and external vendors.
• Experience building and monitoring operational dashboards and performance metrics for cloud data platforms.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent AWS certification strongly preferred.
• AWS Certified Database Specialty certification is a plus.
• Additional cloud or data platform certifications relevant to the role are welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Design and document AWS cloud database architectures that support performance, scalability, availability, security, governance, and cost optimization requirements.
• Lead the modernization and migration of legacy on-premises databases and data platforms to AWS cloud services.
• Architect and optimize data solutions using AWS services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena, DMS, and related monitoring and security services.
• Define database patterns for transactional, analytical, integration, and reporting workloads, including OLTP, OLAP, and data lake architectures.
• Develop architecture standards, reference patterns, design decision records, runbooks, deployment playbooks, and operational best practices.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, governance, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met across all data solutions.
• Develop migration plans, proof-of-concepts, cutover strategies, rollback plans, validation approaches, and post-migration optimization activities.
• Partner with security and governance teams to implement encryption, IAM, network isolation, auditing, logging, data retention, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Drive performance tuning and optimization through data modeling, indexing, partitioning, query tuning, workload management, capacity planning, and observability practices.
• Implement and promote automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, schema migration practices, and repeatable deployment patterns for database-backed solutions.
• Develop dashboards and operational metrics for database health, cost, usage, SLAs, reliability, and platform performance.
• Collaborate with application, integration, analytics, and reporting teams to translate business requirements into practical database and data platform solutions.
• Review and provide recommendations on cloud architecture designs developed by vendors and solution partners.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies to support cloud data platform modernization and AI-enabled business initiatives.

Skills

AWS cloud services

Data modeling

CI/CD pipelines

Security & governance

High availability & DR

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML data platforms

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Database Specialty

Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Hilton seeks an experienced Cloud Architect to design a next-gen cloud data lake and platform powering procurement analytics and AI-enabled capabilities. You will collaborate across stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure cloud data solutions in a hybrid McLean, VA or Memphis, TN setting.

You will lead migrations, design patterns, and automation, building dashboards to monitor health, cost, and performance while ensuring governance and security compliance across the data ecosystem.