Senior Data Architect | AWS AI & Data Platforms

Insight Global; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Data Architect to shape the organization’s data platform using AWS data and AI services. You will act as a SME across traditional data architecture and AWS AI capabilities, designing scalable, secure data platforms for data, analytics, and AI-enabled applications.

The role requires deep AWS expertise, experience with Bedrock, SageMaker, and data lake/warehouse patterns, and collaboration with stakeholders to deliver enterprise-wide data solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Data Engineering.
• Expert-level experience with AWS Cloud Services.
• Experience building or deploying AI Agents and Agentic AI solutions within AWS capabilities.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise data lakes and modern cloud data platforms.
• Strong understanding of AWS services including: S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lake Formation, Lambda, Step Functions, SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock.
• Experience architecting data ingestion, ETL/ELT, storage, and consumption frameworks.
• Strong background in relational and distributed database design.
• Experience with data migration and integrating data across multiple systems.
• Expertise in database performance optimization, indexing, scalability, and governance.
• Experience implementing Amazon Bedrock solutions.
• Experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Experience working with vector databases and embeddings.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification and/or AWS Data Analytics Certification

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise data architectures utilizing AWS cloud services.
• Build and optimize data lakes, data warehouses, and data consumption layers.
• Architect solutions for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and access.
• Evaluate and implement AWS AI services including Amazon Bedrock and agent-based technologies.
• Design and support AI-enabled applications that leverage enterprise data.
• Lead architecture decisions around data movement, data integration, and system interoperability.
• Provide expertise around database design, optimization, performance tuning, and scalability.
• Establish best practices for data governance, security, and cloud architecture.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to identify opportunities where AWS AI capabilities can solve business problems.
• Guide engineering teams on architecture standards and implementation approaches.

Skills

AWS cloud services

SQL & data modeling

RAG architectures

Agent-based AI

Data lake/warehouse design

Enterprise data platforms

Performance tuning

Education

AWS Solutions Architect Certification

AWS Data Analytics Certification

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

S3

Glue

Redshift

Lake Formation

SageMaker

Athena

Lambda

Step Functions

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Data Architect to shape the organization’s data platform using AWS data and AI services. You will act as a SME across traditional data architecture and AWS AI capabilities, designing scalable, secure data platforms for data, analytics, and AI-enabled applications.

The role requires deep AWS expertise, experience with Bedrock, SageMaker, and data lake/warehouse patterns, and collaboration with stakeholders to deliver enterprise-wide data solutions.