Senior Cloud Data Architect, Analytics & Data Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago, IL, is seeking a Delivery Consultant specialized in Data Engineering & Architecture to help federal, state, local government and national security customers deploy scalable data and ML solutions in the cloud.

You will design, build, and optimize data architectures, mentor teams, and act as a trusted advisor on industry trends while delivering secure, cost-effective data analytics applications for diverse public sector workloads.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical specialist, design and architecture experience
• 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
• 3+ years of cloud based solution (AWS or equivalent), system, network and operating system experience
• 7+ years of external or internal customer facing, complex and large scale project management experience
• 5+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
• Experience with SQL, Python, schema definition, and software engineering best practices including secure, testable, and maintainable code

Responsibilities

• Helping clarify customer business outcomes during project discovery and translating them into data architecture and engineering solutions
• Designing and building data analytics applications that are secure, scalable, reliable, performant, and cost-effective
• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective data migration and modernization strategies
• Identifying, mitigating, and communicating risks related to solution and service constraints by making informed technical trade‑offs
• Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends, emerging data technologies, and innovative solutions
• Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, and creating reusable artifacts

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud data engineering

Client-facing

Project management

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CDK

Terraform

Dimensional Modeling

Data Vault

CI/CD automation

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Chicago, IL, is seeking a Delivery Consultant specialized in Data Engineering & Architecture to help federal, state, local government and national security customers deploy scalable data and ML solutions in the cloud.

You will design, build, and optimize data architectures, mentor teams, and act as a trusted advisor on industry trends while delivering secure, cost-effective data analytics applications for diverse public sector workloads.