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Lead Cloud Platform Architect, Data and Analytics

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full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraform

About the role

  • We are seeking a highly skilled Data & Analytics Cloud Platform Architect to design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data layers using AWS and Snowflake.
  • Architect and implement end-to-end data and analytics platforms on AWS, Snowflake and GCP.
  • Design security architecture for all data platform components, ensuring compliance with enterprise and regulatory standards.
  • Define and enforce security best practices for data encryption, access control, identity management, and data masking.
  • Collaborate with InfoSec, Infrastructure provisioning, and compliance teams to integrate security into the data platform lifecycle.
  • Lead the development of secure data ingestion, transformation, and storage layers.
  • Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to define data requirements and solutions.
  • Ensure data security, governance, and compliance across cloud environments.
  • Optimize performance and cost-efficiency of data pipelines and storage.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineers and architects.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities and security posture.
  • Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data architecture, with at least 3 years in a lead role.
  • Deep expertise in AWS data services (e.g., S3, Glue, Redshift, IAM, KMS) and Snowflake.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing secure data architectures in cloud environments.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (ex: VPC, Endpoints, Private access, Direct link, VPC-SC).
  • Strong understanding of data governance, compliance (e.g., CCPA, GDPR), and security frameworks.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Experience with security monitoring, auditing, and incident response in data platforms.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.