Data Solution Architect

Data Solution Architect with AWS
Location: Santa Clara, CA 
Contract 

Job Description:
Role Summary:
Responsible for leading the discovery, architecture, and data modelling efforts for a scalable, cloud-native data platform. Oversees end-to-end architecture, CDC design, and ensures alignment with enterprise data strategies.
Strong experience with cloud-native data architecture (preferably AWS)
Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Modelling
Data Lakehouse architecture and design
Hands-on with ER modelling, normalization, dimensional modelling
Experience with large-scale structured & semi-structured datasets (e.g., JSON)
CDC (Change Data Capture) and Data Lineage frameworks
Data governance and metadata management
AWS (S3, Glue, Redshift, IAM, KMS)
Lucidchart, dbt, ER/Studio, SQL Developer
Git, GitLab and other Dev/DataOps workflows