Hybrid Data Architect for Wealth Management on AWS

System One; Naperville (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

System One is seeking a Data Architect – Wealth Management to design and govern a modern, cloud-native data platform on AWS. This hybrid, onsite role in Naperville, IL requires shaping data foundations for wealth management insights while collaborating with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

You will lead end-to-end data architecture, model core entities, and establish standards across ingestion, storage, and consumption, with a strong focus on regulatory compliance and data lineage.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture, with Banking/Financial Services exposure.
• Experience designing large-scale data platforms on AWS.
• Strong data modeling across dimensional, data vault, and 3NF.
• Experience with data lake/lakehouse and data warehouse architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance, quality, metadata, and lineage in regulated environments.
• Experience with security, privacy, and compliance controls.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data architecture for Wealth Management on AWS including data lakes, warehouses, and streaming pipelines.
• Define conceptual, logical, and physical data models for clients, households, accounts, portfolios, and transactions.
• Establish architecture standards for ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption.
• Lead data governance, quality, cataloging, and MDM initiatives; ensure data lineage and auditability.
• Partner with security to enforce encryption and access controls (PII/PCI).
• Guide data engineering teams and review designs for alignment with target architecture.
• Evaluate tools and AWS services balancing cost, performance, and scalability.
• Support real-time and batch integration with source systems and analytics teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Leadership/mentoring

SQL

Python

Tools

AWS (S3, Redshift, EMR, Athena, Glue, Lake Formation)

Kinesis / MSK / Lambda / Step Functions / MWAA

RDS / Aurora / DynamoDB

CloudFormation / Terraform

BI tools (QuickSight, Tableau, Power BI)

Job description

System One is seeking a Data Architect – Wealth Management to design and govern a modern, cloud-native data platform on AWS. This hybrid, onsite role in Naperville, IL requires shaping data foundations for wealth management insights while collaborating with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

You will lead end-to-end data architecture, model core entities, and establish standards across ingestion, storage, and consumption, with a strong focus on regulatory compliance and data lineage.