Senior AWS Data Architect – AI-Ready Data Foundation

Signet Jewelers Limited; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Signet Jewelers Limited seeks an experienced Sr. AWS Data Architect to lead the design and modernization of data platforms supporting analytics, BI, ML and AI initiatives.

You will own enterprise data architecture and set standards for scalable, secure data solutions on AWS. The role blends architectural leadership with hands-on implementation, focusing on AWS services such as Redshift, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, and more.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive technology experience in enterprise data architecture, cloud architecture and data engineering.
• Experience designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms on AWS.
• Solid data modeling for analytical and operational workloads.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and technical design discussions.
• Exposure to Data Mesh, data products and domain-oriented data architectures.
• Self-driven learning and adoption of emerging data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise data architecture strategies and modernization roadmaps.
• Lead architecture assessments, feasibility studies, design reviews and policy decisions.
• Develop AI-ready data foundation supporting analytics, ML, GenAI, and agentic AI solutions.
• Create reusable architecture patterns for RAG, embeddings, vector search and data integration.
• Collaborate with governance, security and engineering teams to ensure compliant, secure data solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, POC guidance, and design reviews.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Cloud architecture

Data engineering

Data modeling

Architecture reviews

Data Mesh / Data products

Domain-oriented architecture

AI data ingestion with LLMs

Infrastructure as code (AWS CDK/Terra​

CI/CD / DevOps

Leadership / mentoring engineers

Executive communication

Tools

Redshift

RDS

AWS Glue

Lambda

Kinesis

EventBridge

API Gateway

SQS

SNS

IAM

CloudWatch

AWS CDK

Terraform

Job description

Signet Jewelers Limited seeks an experienced Sr. AWS Data Architect to lead the design and modernization of data platforms supporting analytics, BI, ML and AI initiatives.

You will own enterprise data architecture and set standards for scalable, secure data solutions on AWS. The role blends architectural leadership with hands-on implementation, focusing on AWS services such as Redshift, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, and more.