AWS Platform Architect - Data Ideology

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:

• Bachelor’s 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 o