AWS Data Architect

Job description

TCS-WALKIN DRIVE KOLKATA JD AWS Data Architect

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled AWS Data Architect to design, govern, and evolve scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient data architectures on AWS. The role focuses on defining data strategy, reference architectures, and best practices to enable analytics, reporting, and advanced data use cases across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Define and own end‑to‑end data architecture on AWS, including data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and consumption layers. Design enterprise‑grade data platforms using AWS services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lake Formation, EMR, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and RDS. Establish data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures aligned with business and analytical needs. Develop architectural standards, patterns, and reference architectures for data engineering teams.

Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and domain teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions. Ensure data governance, security, privacy, and compliance (IAM, encryption, data access control, auditing). Guide teams on data modeling approaches (dimensional, normalized, event‑driven, domain‑oriented models). Review and approve solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.

Optimize performance, scalability, and cost using AWS best practices. Lead architecture reviews, technical decision‑making, and mentoring of data engineers. Partner with DevOps, Cloud, and Platform teams on CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and observability.

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING