Lead AWS Data Architect for Trusted Data Platforms

Verisk Analytics, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisk Analytics is seeking a Data Architect to set the architecture, standards, and roadmap for trusted data across our AWS‑based products and platforms. You will model, govern, secure, and consume data, working with software and data engineers, analytics, product, security, and business teams to turn complex insurance data into durable data products.

The role requires practical architecture across relational, NoSQL, and data‑driven platforms, with ownership of data modeling, governance, and

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data engineering or database architecture with AWS ownership.
• Proven track record designing enterprise data platforms and data‑intensive products.
• Deep expertise in data modeling across relational, dimensional, domain‑driven, event‑based, and NoSQL patterns.
• Strong SQL and database engineering across PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora, Redshift, and DynamoDB.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage, privacy, security, retention, and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Define the target data architecture and phased roadmap for operational systems, data lakes, warehouses, integration services, analytics platforms, and customer‑facing data products.
• Establish domain‑oriented data models and product boundaries that clarify ownership, reduce duplication, and support consistent use of core business data.
• Design logical and physical models, canonical schemas, event structures, data contracts, and master/reference data approaches across relational, dimensional, and NoSQL environments.
• Set architecture standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, sharing, retention, archiving, and deletion across batch, streaming, API, and event‑driven patterns.
• Architect AWS data solutions using appropriate services such as S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Redshift, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, and API Gateway.
• Connect transactional applications with reporting, BI, advanced analytics, ML, and external use cases without compromising operational integrity.
• Define expectations for metadata, cataloging, lineage, provenance, quality, observability, semantic consistency, and service levels.
• Embed privacy and security into data design, including IAM, encryption, masking, tokenization, tenant isolation, policy‑based access, and retention.
• Guide database and workload design across relational, NoSQL, warehouse, and object storage technologies.
• Partner with product and business teams to translate information needs into data capabilities and make dependencies explicit.
• Evaluate new AWS services and data patterns through proofs of concept and evidence‑based recommendations.
• Provide architecture oversight from discovery through production and coach data engineers, software engineers, analysts, and technical leads.

Skills

Data architecture

AWS data platforms

SQL & relational DBs

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Glue

Amazon Redshift

Aurora

RDS

DynamoDB

Kinesis

Lambda

Step Functions

SQS

SNS

API Gateway

Job description

Verisk Analytics is seeking a Data Architect to set the architecture, standards, and roadmap for trusted data across our AWS‑based products and platforms. You will model, govern, secure, and consume data, working with software and data engineers, analytics, product, security, and business teams to turn complex insurance data into durable data products.

The role requires practical architecture across relational, NoSQL, and data‑driven platforms, with ownership of data modeling, governance, and