Data Architect

Job Description:
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
* 12+ years of progressive experience in application development, engineering, solution architecture, and technical leadership.
* 5+ years as a solution architect with AWS or Azure.
* Expertise in enterprise data platforms including data lakes, warehouses, marts, and real-time streaming.
* Proficiency with relational, semi-structured, and unstructured databases; strong Python or Java skills.
* Experience designing large-scale APIs, microservices, and distributed streaming solutions.
* Hands-on AWS architecture including VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, landing zones, ELB, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, App Mesh, RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora, and DynamoDB.
* Security-by-design expertise with risk assessment, control design, gap remediation, and observability frameworks.
* AWS or Azure Architecture Associate Certification required. AWS Professional Certification preferred.