JD 04 - Data | Staff Consultant

Role Summary

This Staff Consultant role builds governed data platforms, data pipelines, lakehouse layers, reporting and analytics on AWS. The consultant is expected to operate as an embedded AWS SME, provide hands-on implementation support, and create audit-ready technical documentation aligned to regulated Financial Services delivery expectations.

Role Scope & Key Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

• Angular Application Migration Leadership: Lead comprehensive assessments of Angular front-end applications across all web-facing SYS IDs currently deployed on Tomcat/OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), defining migration paths from on-premises OCP to self-managed OCP on Amazon EC2 with minimal application changes
• User Experience & Persona Design: Create detailed day-in-the-life persona journey documents for 4 key stakeholder groups (Operations, Developer, Business Analyst, Compliance), ensuring user workflow continuity and assessing UI/UX implications throughout the migration lifecycle
• Embedded Analytics Architecture: Design and implement Amazon QuickSight embedded analytics integration with existing FICC (Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities) web portals, replacing legacy Crystal Reports with modern, cloud-native dashboard structures
• CI/CD Pipeline Design: Define Angular-specific CI/CD patterns for Jenkins/CloudBees pipelines, ensuring automated build, test, and deployment workflows for containerized front-end applications on AWS infrastructure
• Reporting Modernization: Document current CDS NFS report distribution mechanisms and design S3-based migration paths for secure, scalable report access and distribution
• Architecture Documentation: Produce comprehensive current-state and target-state comparison diagrams (visual architecture artifacts) for all migration phases, ensuring stakeholder alignment and technical clarity

Deliverables Ownership:

• Day-in-the-Life Personas (4 persona journey documents with AWS service touchpoints)
• Angular Migration Assessment (OCP on-prem OCP on EC2) with AWS infrastructure design
• QuickSight Dashboard Design (Crystal Reports replacement) with embedded analytics integration
• CI/CD Pipeline Architecture for Angular applications on AWS
• Report Distribution Migration Plan (NFS Amazon S3)

Current-State vs. Target-State Comparison Diagrams with AWS service mapping

AWS Skills & Services (added)

• Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, PySpark/Scala, Athena and S3-based lakehouse implementation
• Amazon Redshift, Lake Formation, DataZone and Glue Data Catalog for governed analytics
• Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK for streaming ingestion and event-driven data pipelines
• Amazon QuickSight embedded analytics and reporting modernization
• Spark tuning, ETL/ELT pipeline engineering and data-quality validation

Compute & Containers:

• Amazon EC2 (self-managed OCP deployment)
• Elastic Load Balancing (ALB for Angular apps)

Analytics & BI:

• Amazon QuickSight (embedded analytics, dashboard design, RLS/CLS, Paginated Reports)
• Amazon Athena (S3 data querying)

Storage & CDN:

• Amazon S3 (report storage, lifecycle policies, presigned URLs, encryption)
• Amazon CloudFront (Angular asset delivery, low-latency dashboards)

CI/CD & DevOps:

• AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy (Jenkins integration)
• Amazon ECR (container registry)
• AWS Systems Manager (configuration management)

Security & Networking:

• Amazon VPC (networking for OCP on EC2)
• AWS IAM (QuickSight users, S3 policies, EC2 roles)
• AWS Secrets Manager (credential management)
• AWS Certificate Manager (SSL/TLS)

Monitoring:

• Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms)

AWS X-Ray (distributed tracing)

Financial Services & Industry Skills (added)

• Large regulated financial-services delivery with formal change-control, audit and risk governance
• Operational resilience expectations including RTO/RPO, multi-region DR and evidence for audit review
• Awareness of applicable controls and regulations such as DORA, NIST CSF 2.0, PCI DSS, SEC cyber rules, RegSCI and SIFMU/FMI expectations where relevant
• Ability to create Tech Risk-ready documentation including ADRs, runbooks, design docs, threat models and validation evidence
• Clear communication with client engineering, security, SRE, data and platform stakeholders as an embedded SME

Certifications / Qualifications

• AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate / Professional
• AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty nice to have

General Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant hands-on delivery experience at L5 scope
• Prior delivery in a large regulated enterprise environment, preferably financial services
• Ability to write architecture decision records, design documents, runbooks and test evidence for client Tech Risk review
• Strong stakeholder communication across engineering, security, operations, SRE and delivery teams
• Compliance with AWS ProServe and client onboarding, security, vetting and time-zone overlap requirements