Experienced AWS Solutions Architect, Data Architect

Kaizen Analytix

AWS Solutions Architect and Data Architect for designing and implementing secure cloud solutions. Leading architecture reviews and providing technical guidance across teams.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftAWSCloudDynamoDBEC2ETL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design end-to-end AWS cloud solutions aligned with business, security, performance, and cost requirements
Develop target-state architectures for cloud migration, modernization, and new application development
Architect scalable data platforms, including ingestion, storage, transformation, governance, and consumption layers
Define enterprise data models, data standards, metadata practices, and data lifecycle management approaches
Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance across application, infrastructure, and data teams
Establish patterns for secure connectivity, identity management, encryption, logging, monitoring, and auditability
Design resilient multi-account AWS environments using Organizations, Control Tower, and landing zone principles
Evaluate and recommend AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, Kinesis, and Athena
Partner with engineering, analytics, security, and operations teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions
Define integration patterns for APIs, event-driven systems, batch processing, and real-time data flows
Create technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns
Optimize architectures for reliability, performance, operational excellence, security, and cost
Support data governance, master data management, data quality, lineage, and compliance initiatives
Mentor teams and influence architectural decision-making across the organization
Participate in roadmap planning, vendor evaluation, and cloud/data strategy discussions

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in cloud, solutions architecture, data architecture, or related technical leadership roles
Strong hands-on experience designing and delivering AWS-based architectures
Deep understanding of networking, security, IAM, compute, storage, database, and integration services in AWS
Proven experience with enterprise data architecture, including data warehousing, data lakes, and data governance
Experience with modern data engineering patterns, ELT/ETL, streaming, and batch pipelines
Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, dimensional modeling, and metadata management
Familiarity with infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices
Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments with security and compliance requirements
AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, Data Analytics, or related certifications preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Professional development
AWS certifications

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWS cloud solutionscloud migrationdata platformsenterprise data modelsdata lifecycle managementAPI integration patternsdata governancedata qualityELTETL

Soft Skills

technical guidancementoringinfluencing decision-makingcollaborationroadmap planning

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect ProfessionalAWS Data Analytics