AWS Platform Architect

Data Ideology

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AWS Platform Architect -(Contract 1099)

The AWS Platform Architect will support the design and implementation of strategies that emphasize data ownership quality and lifecycle management. This role plays a key part in building a strong foundation for organizational data analytics by ensuring data is reliable accessible and well-managed across complex multi-tenant medallion lakehouses.
This is a hands-on cross-functional role working closely with both business and technical stakeholders to operationalize AWS platform architecture multi-tenant security and real-time event-driven practices across the organization

Responsibilities
To perform in this position successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

• Strategy & Analysis: Lead AWS platform design (VPC IAM networking) and define S3 storage patterns across Bronze Silver and Gold medallion layers; produce Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with explicit trade-off rationale.
• Technical Execution: Author production-ready Terraform modules with state management and remote backends; implement multi-tenant security (ABAC/RBAC Lake Formation row/column filters and KMS encryption).
• Quality & Problem Solving: Ensure strict tenant isolation across storage and compute layers; design real-time service layers spanning IoT Core AppSync and EventBridge/Kinesis with mTLS and secure protocols.
• Collaboration and Communication: Serve as the primary technical authority for all cloud infrastructure decisions; lead technical sessions with enterprise security IT and DevOps teams to ensure architectural conformance.
• Documentation: Define and document reference blueprints CDC/streaming partitioning strategies operational runbooks cost-tagging standards and CloudWatch observability patterns.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent professional experience; AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Pro or Security Specialty) are highly preferred.
• 7 years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure or Platform Engineering with a proven track record of leading multi-tenant AWS data platforms and event-driven architectures.
• Expert-level hands-on proficiency with AWS core services (S3 Glue Redshift Lake Formation IoT Core KMS) and authoring complex Terraform modules with remote state management.
• Deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure including environment promotion (Dev/Stage/Prod) drift detection and automated validation.
• Solid networking fundamentals including VPC design PrivateLink and identity federation patterns (SAML/OAuth2/mTLS).
• Demonstrated ability to design airtight data isolation at scale (ABAC/RBAC) and produce builder-ready technical standards such as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to track AWS spend against cost models and drive optimization through resource tagging and architectural efficiency.

Work Environment:

• Remote work from home.
• Hours of work and days are generally Monday through Friday. Specific business hours will depend on client needs.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• The person in this position must occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets library stacks office machinery etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery such as a calculator copy machine and printer.
• The person in this position frequently communicates with clients and coworkers. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

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