AWS Data Architect Senior Manager

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Technology Strategy

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

PwCs Cloud Computing and Networking practice helps our clients transform their business through innovative technology solutions and effective IT Service Management. Part of that journey includes helping our clients enable innovation reinventing their customer experience and exploring new markets.

You will be immersed in a variety of different projects groups and locations while getting inspired through your community to grow as an individual as well as a team. Our diverse client service teams encourages outofthebox thinking problem solving great team mentality and a curiosity for understanding the latest in technology.

We seek an experienced and forwardthinking Data Architect to join our rapidly expanding AWS Alliance team. This role is crucial in designing and delivering cuttingedge Data solutions that drive our clients success. In this role you will play a pivotal part in designing developing and maintaining Datarelated projects enabling our client to deploy analytics advanced analytics and AI models. Your expertise will be crucial in transforming consumable vast datasets into actionable insights empowering our clients to achieve their business goals.

Meaningful work youll be part of

Delivering Solutions:

• Requirements Gathering and Solutioning:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements providing clear project direction and prioritization.

  • Identify customer pain points & objectives relevant KPIs and articulate solution impact.

  • Conduct discovery sessions analyze requirements and design solutions.

  • Design and implement processes for data acquisition storage transformation and retrieval from various sources ensuring data quality and integrity but also seamless integration of largescale datasets allowing our clients to fully leverage the value of their investment into their Data Lake and alike.

• Technology Lead/SME:

  • Lead project planning and delivery activities ensuring alignment with business objectives timelines and quality standards.

  • Identify manage and resolve any risks issues and blockers.

  • As the SME on AWS Data technologies serve as technical lead on customer engagements and internal initiatives providing technical guidance and leadership to delivery teams.

  • Providing leadership on engagements including balancing team and individual responsibilities; building teams and consensus; getting things done through others not directly under their supervision; and working ethically and with integrity.

  • Stay embedded with the Data delivery teams to understand functional and nonfunctional requirements remove roadblocks and analyze feasibility.

  • Foster a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team.

  • Identify areas for improvement and increase the productivity of the Delivery team.

• Best Practices:

  • Ensure the development of robust scalable Data solutions and platforms by providing technical oversight and aligning with AWS best practices.

  • Establish and maintain best practices for engagement delivery and leverage frameworks consistent with and supportive of the AWS Data technologies and architectural approach.

  • Promote and ensure delivery teams adherence to Agile methodology and Scrum framework.

• Communication & reporting:

  • Establish and ensure regular and effective communication with all required stakeholders translating complex Data concepts into understandable insights and updates.

  • Implement mechanisms to monitor manage and provide progress on all engagement activities and team performance and establish regular reporting to leadership.

Supporting Data and AI Practices Growth and Operational Excellence:

• Hiring: Participate in interviews and other recruiting activities to ensure the hiring of the highest quality candidates.

• Sales: Support sales activities by meeting with potential customers discovering and validating requirements presenting solutions presenting our teams capabilities and offerings performing technical validation and reviewing Statements of Work (SoWs).

• Marketing & Brand Building: Participate in events e.g. re:Invent AWS Summits etc. produce thought leadership content (e.g. blogs whitepapers) and develop demos.

• Coaching and Mentoring: Coaching and mentoring diverse people and perspectives.

Learning:

• Maintains an indepth knowledge of AWS cloud data and Datarelated technologies and can articulate best practice approaches and practices.

• Maintain knowledge of various data and Datarelated compliance and industry regulations to ensure consistent compliance with policies standards and tools and consistent enforcement with clients.

Experience and skills youll use to solve

• Data Expertise:

  • Expert knowledge of Data concepts and methodologies including databases data lakes data warehousing data lakes data governance and data security.

  • Expert knowledge in the data best practices captured by AWS WellArchitected Framework Data Lens.

• Leadership:

  • Demonstrable experience in consulting architecting/solution and leading multiworkstream Data engagements in an enterprise setting.

• AWS Data:

  • Expert knowledge in AWS Data integration ingestion storage processing and visualization technologies across structured and unstructured data sources along with various enterprise applications.

  • Expert knowledge in modern data architecture and platforms such as cloud data mesh data lakehouse delta lake and data warehousing.

  • Experience in migrating data platform applications from onprem to AWS.

• Code:

  • Expert knowledge of SQL languages with a strong programming skill in Python or Spark/Scala.

  • Advanced knowledge in code repositories code development processes and code reviews.

• AWS Infrastructure & AI:

  • Expert knowledge in AWS infrastructure technologies such as CDK CloudFormation AWS Step Functions EC2 and IAM.

  • Demonstrable knowledge in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart.

• ProblemSolving: Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.

• Autonomy: Ability to work independently and in a team.

• Learning: An interest in continuously upskilling for a digitalfirst world and embracing technology trends an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work.

• Education: Bachelors degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science Machine Learning Operational Research Statistics). A masters or PhD degree in a relevant field is a bonus.

• Certifications: AWS certifications are a bonus.

Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

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Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Amazon Web Services (AWS) Analytical Thinking Architecture Frameworks Business Process Modeling Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Design Cloud Virtualization Coaching and Feedback Communication Creativity Embracing Change Emotional Regulation Empathy Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Integration Firewall (Network Security) Inclusion Intellectual Curiosity IT Infrastructure IT Operations IT Troubleshooting Learning Agility 20 more

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Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship

No

Government Clearance Required

No

Job Posting End Date

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