AWS Data Architect
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AWS Data Architect designing S3 Data Lakes, ETL frameworks, and analytics platforms for Leighton’s cloud consultancy. Enabling governed, secure, scalable AWS data solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable Data Lake architectures using Amazon S3
- Define and maintain Data Lake structures including Raw, Curated, and Consumption zones
- Architect enterprise ETL and ELT solutions using AWS Glue and related AWS services
- Design and optimise analytical data models and reporting solutions using Amazon Redshift
- Enable self-service analytics through Amazon Athena and data cataloguing services
- Develop data ingestion frameworks for batch and near real-time workloads
- Establish data governance, security, metadata management, and access controls
- Optimise storage, query performance, and cloud consumption costs
- Collaborate with data engineers, BI teams, product teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Define data architecture standards, best practices, and technical roadmaps
- Support migration of legacy data platforms into AWS-native architectures
Requirements:
- Strong experience designing and operating Amazon S3 Data Lakes
- Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, including Crawlers, Data Catalog, ETL Jobs and Workflows
- Experience designing analytical solutions using Amazon Redshift
- Strong knowledge of querying and optimising datasets using Amazon Athena
- Experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale ETL pipelines
- Data modelling for analytics, reporting, and cloud data platforms
- Expertise in AWS data architecture patterns and best practices
- Experience designing scalable, high-volume data processing solutions
- Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, metadata management and security
- Knowledge of data partitioning, compression, and query optimisation techniques
- Experience with structured, semi-structured and unstructured datasets
- An open and genuine communicator
- Able to take responsibility for your actions
- Always learning and wanting to improve
- Takes responsibility for own development
- Love what you do
- Value and support your team
- Embrace who you are
- Open minded and willing to explore new ideas
Benefits:
- A competitive salary dependent on experience
- A contributory pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to buy or sell holiday
- Flexible approach to working hours
- Continuous personal development, career path and training
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