AWS Platform Architect

AWS Platform Architect - (Contract 1099)

At DI, we provide Data & Analytics expertise to drive measurable business outcomes, often solving complex business problems for our clients. Our data analytics advisory services enable our customers to transform data into insights by driving a culture of empowerment and ownership of results. Our team consists of highly motivated individuals passionate about learning, understanding, collaborating, and intellectually curious.

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

• 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 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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