Lead AI-Ready Data Platform Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs / Sign-on

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in Data to join the ProServe group in the United States.

You will design and implement modern data platforms, architect data pipelines, and build enterprise knowledge graphs to empower foundation models and AI agents with governed, AI-ready data. You will work hands-on with customer environments, balancing data lineage, legacy systems, and production-grade solutions across multiple downstream consumers, from ML model

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience.
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines.
• Experience building ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic relation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production-grade data pipelines, data lakes, lakehouses, and data mesh architectures within enterprise environments, integrating with legacy systems and existing data governance frameworks.
• Build data products that serve multiple downstream applications and use cases — from AI/ML model training to agentic AI systems, ensuring data quality, lineage, and reliability at scale.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy within fast-moving delivery engagements, making judgment calls on data modeling, pipeline design, and architecture without waiting for perfect specifications or constant oversight.
• Navigate complex data access, security, and privacy requirements.
• Architect contextual knowledge layers, including ontologies and knowledge graphs leveraging AWS Context, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and custom ontology extensions to equip AI agents with the vocabulary and guardrails to reason accurately and execute autonomously within regulated environments.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries to secure data access, understand source system context, and resolve data quality challenges with teams across customer IT, business, and partner organizations.
• Deliver iteratively when requirements are ambiguous, translating incomplete business needs into well-architected data solutions that can evolve as customer understanding matures.
• Apply AI-DLC (AI-accelerated Development Life Cycle) methodologies to data delivery to redesign data workflows to become AI-native for accelerated scale and pace.

Skills

cloud architecture

data engineering

data modeling

ETL pipelines

ontologies

semantic graphs

AWS services

LLMs in production

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

S3

Redshift

Sagemaker

EMR

Kinesis

Lambda

EC2

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Delivery Consultant specializing in Data to join the ProServe group in the United States.

You will design and implement modern data platforms, architect data pipelines, and build enterprise knowledge graphs to empower foundation models and AI agents with governed, AI-ready data. You will work hands-on with customer environments, balancing data lineage, legacy systems, and production-grade solutions across multiple downstream consumers, from ML model