Data Architect

Data Architect Wealth Management Location: Naperville, IL (Hybrid Onsite Client Office) Duration: 6+ Months Contract with a possibility of Extension Job Summary Join a collaborative Data & Analytics team building a modern cloud‑native data platform on AWS. This hands‑on Data Architect role will define the data architecture that powers Wealth Management analytics while partnering with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. You'll establish enterprise data standards, governance, and scalable AWS‑based data solutions. Key Responsibilities Design end‑to‑end AWS data architecture for Wealth Management platforms. Build and maintain data lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, and streaming pipelines. Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Design models for clients, households, accounts, portfolios, holdings, transactions, and advisor relationships. Establish enterprise standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption. Design regulatory reporting solutions (SEC, FINRA, Reg BI, SOX). Lead Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Cataloging, and MDM initiatives. Implement secure architecture with encryption, IAM, KMS, and PII/PCI compliance. Guide engineering teams and review technical designs. Evaluate AWS services based on scalability, performance, and cost. Support batch and real‑time integrations with portfolio, CRM, custody, and market data systems. Enable BI, reporting, and ML/Analytics use cases. Must-Have Skills 10-12+ years of Data Engineering/Data Architecture experience Banking & Financial Services domain Wealth Management, Asset Management, Private Banking, or Brokerage experience AWS Data Platform Architecture Data Modeling (Dimensional, Data Vault, 3NF) Data Lake/Lakehouse & Data Warehouse Architecture ETL/ELT Design Data Governance, Metadata, Data Quality & Lineage Advanced SQL & Python Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) AWS Technologies Storage & Analytics: S3, Redshift, EMR, Athena, Glue, Lake Formation Lakehouse: Parquet, Iceberg, Delta Lake Streaming: Kinesis, MSK (Kafka) Serverless: Lambda, Step Functions, MWAA (Airflow) Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB Security: IAM, KMS, Encryption BI Tools QuickSight Tableau Power BI Nice-to-Have AWS Certifications

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