AWS Data Delivery Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 153,600 - 207,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA, is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in Data Engineering & Architecture to design, build, and optimize cloud data platforms for federal and state customers.

In this customer‑facing role, you will translate business outcomes into scalable data architectures, mentor teams, and lead end‑to‑end data migration and modernization efforts across data lakes, warehouses, and analytics pipelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience.
• 5+ years of database (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience.
• 3+ years of cloud-based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience.
• 7+ years of external or internal customer-facing, complex and large-scale project management experience.
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience.
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience with SQL, Python, schema definition, and software engineering best practices including secure, testable, and maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Helping clarify customer business outcomes during project discovery and translating them into data architecture and engineering solutions.
• Designing and building data analytics applications that are secure, scalable, reliable, performant, and cost-effective.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective data migration and modernization strategies.
• Identifying, mitigating, and communicating risks related to solution and service constraints by making informed technical trade-offs.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends, emerging data technologies, and innovative solutions.
• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts.

Skills

SQL

Python

NoSQL

Spark

Kafka

Kinesis

Data architecture

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree

7+ years professional experience

Tools

CDK

Terraform

AWS services

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Herndon, VA, is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in Data Engineering & Architecture to design, build, and optimize cloud data platforms for federal and state customers.

In this customer‑facing role, you will translate business outcomes into scalable data architectures, mentor teams, and lead end‑to‑end data migration and modernization efforts across data lakes, warehouses, and analytics pipelines.