Technical Architect - Data

Quantiphi; Boston (MA); On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantiphi is seeking an experienced Technical Architect - Data to lead the design and implementation of data warehouse and lakehouse solutions on AWS. The role requires 8+ years of hands-on experience with data platforms and distributed processing, collaborating with global teams, and delivering scalable architectures.

You will leverage AWS services like S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, EMR, and Kinesis to build robust, governable data pipelines and real-time data flows, while applying best

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing data warehouses and data lakes/lakehouses on AWS.
• Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams in delivery environments.
• Proficiency with AWS data services (S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, MWAA).
• Strong Python and PySpark for large-scale data processing; SQL and data modeling skills.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data Warehousing

Data Lake Architecture

Distributed Data Processing

AWS Data & Analytics

Team Collaboration

Tools

AWS Glue

Amazon S3

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Redshift

AWS EMR

AWS Kinesis

Lambda

MWAA

DMS

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

Athena

RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Aurora)

Job description

Quantiphi is an award-winning, AI-First global digital engineering company that helps the world’s leading Fortune 1000 organizations transform bold ideas into measurable business impact. We go beyond building innovative AI technologies—we solve the problems that matter most to our clients.

Since our founding in 2013, Quantiphi has built a proven track record of turning complex challenges into meaningful outcomes across industries.

Headquartered in Boston, with more than 4,000 professionals worldwide, we partner with global enterprises to deliver large-scale digital, cloud, and AI-driven transformation #SolvingWhatMatters.

We are an Elite and Premier partner to Google Cloud, AWS, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and other leading technology platforms, and our work has been recognized across the industry, including:

• 21 Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the past 10 years
• 3 AWS AI/ML Partner of the Year awards
• 3 NVIDIA Partner of the Year awards
• 3 Snowflake Partner of the Year awards
• Rated Leaders by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest Group and other leading analyst firms

Quantiphi delivers First-in-class AI solutions across Life Sciences, Healthcare, Banking, Financial Services, CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, High-Tech, Telecommunications, etc., powered by cutting-edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators.

We are also proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work—reflecting our commitment to our people and our culture.

Role: Technical Architect - Data

Experience Level: 8+ years

Employment type: Full Time

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in designing and implementing data warehouses and data lakes/lakehouses on AWS.
• Proven success working with globally distributed teams in collaborative delivery environments.
• Deep working knowledge across key AWS Data & Analytics services, including:
• Building large-scale data lake architectures on Amazon S3 and open table formats
• Implementing governance and cataloging through AWS Lake Formation.
• Developing ETL and metadata frameworks using AWS Glue.
• Leveraging AWS Lambda for serverless data processing.
• Running distributed data workloads on Amazon EMR.
• Enabling real-time data pipelines with AWS Kinesis (Data Streams and Firehose).
• Orchestrating pipelines using AWS Step Functions/Amazon MWAA/similar services.
• Designing and optimizing schemas and query performance on Amazon Redshift, including Spectrum and Serverless features.
• Querying large datasets interactively using Amazon Athena.
• Managing operational databases using Amazon RDS across engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Aurora.
• Integrating and migrating data using AWS DMS, Glue Connectors, EventBridge, SNS, and SQS.
• Strong programming capability in Python and PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Proficiency in writing complex SQL queries, analytical functions, and performance tuning for large datasets.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, or DocumentDB.
• Strong understanding of partitioning, indexing, scaling approaches, and query optimization techniques.
• Proven experience in architecting and implementing data pipelines using native AWS services in a modular and resilient manner.
• Solid understanding of data modeling concepts, including dimensional, normalized, and lakehouse patterns.
• Background legacy/on premise to AWS migration engagements.
• Solution Architect- Associate or Data Engineer- Associate Certification.

Good to have skills:

• Experience of working on enterprise greenfield projects that have Application development workload as well.
• Experience of working for customers/workloads in the FSI sector domain with use cases.
• Experience in building data pipelines integrating with data virtualization tools like Denedo & data governance tools like Collibra.
• Exposure to SSIS.

What is in it for you:

• Join one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-first digital engineering companies and make a real impact at scale.
• Lead and collaborate with a high-energy team of talented, driven individuals solving complex, meaningful challenges.
• Work with Fortune 500 companies and disruptive innovators in a research-driven environment with 60+ patents.
• Stay ahead of the curve by gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies while continuously upskilling.