Senior AWS Data Architect – Remote Data Platform

Signet Jewelers Limited; Akron (OH); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Generous time off

Merchandise discount

Learning & Development

Job summary

Signet Jewelers Limited is seeking an AWS Data Architect to lead enterprise data platform architecture, data modeling and governance on AWS. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with architectural ownership of scalable, secure data solutions, guiding teams through design, implementation and optimization.

The ideal candidate will own data architecture, define governance standards, and partner with data engineers and stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-performing data platforms for

Qualifications

• 11+ years in software engineering or relevant IT experience.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture patterns (lakehouse, warehouse, mesh).
• Hands on expertise with AWS services including SQS, API Gateway, SNS, Kinesis, Glue, Event Bridge, Redshift, Lambda, CloudWatch, RDS.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands on technical leadership through code reviews, architecture/design walkthroughs and implementation guidance.
• Design, implement and evolve event driven and real time data streaming architectures.
• Define and enforce best practices for data access, storage and processing across Analytical and operational use cases.
• Architect and implement scalable data platforms using AWS native services, with deep hands on expertise in Python, AWS Glue, API Gateway, Kinesis, AWS Lambda, SQL and Redshift.
• Ensure data architectures effectively support analytics, reporting and AI/ML use cases.
• Drive end to end data modeling across operational and analytical domains.
• Define and implement robust data quality frameworks, including validation rules, automated checks and reconciliation logic to ensure data integrity across both streaming and analytical data pipelines.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts and business stakeholders to deliver data driven solutions.
• Establish and enforce data governance standards including metadata management and cataloging cloud native governance and cataloging services.
• Own and govern schema design and evolution across structured and semi-structured data formats (relational, JSON, Parquet).
• Design and implement monitoring, logging and event based alerting using Amazon CloudWatch and SNS.
• Ensure pipelines are fault tolerant, observable, resilient and scalable.

Skills

AWS data architecture

AWS services

Data governance

Event-driven architecture

Infrastructure as code

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

AWS Glue

Kinesis

Redshift

Lambda

CloudWatch

Job description

Signet Jewelers Limited is seeking an AWS Data Architect to lead enterprise data platform architecture, data modeling and governance on AWS. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with architectural ownership of scalable, secure data solutions, guiding teams through design, implementation and optimization.

The ideal candidate will own data architecture, define governance standards, and partner with data engineers and stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-performing data platforms for