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Position:- AWS Data Architect
Location:- Santa Monica, CA, or Raleigh, NC
Immediate Interview
Long Term Contract

Responsibilities / Qualifications:

· Candidate must have 10+ years of IT working experience with at least 5 years of experience on AWS Cloud environment is preferred

· Experience and knowledge of AWS Cloud Architectures, Databases, Data models and Data integration patterns.

· Conduct data profiling activities, discover data quality challenges, document the impacts to business and make recommendations for data quality improvements

· Expertise in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint with AWS Cloud platform.

· Experience with Ingestion & Transformation framework development and enhancements

· Define and design Data pipeline architecture for data ingestion processes using AWS native services.

· Design and optimize data models on AWS Cloud using AWS data stores such as Redshift, RDS, S3, Glue Data Catalog, Python, Lake formation, etc

· Collaborate with different teams to ensure quality and compliance to the Enterprise Data Architecture by participating in data analysis/design activities and conducting appropriate technical data design reviews at various stages during the development life cycle. This includes providing data modelling expertise with both relational and dimensional modelling techniques.

· Guide, educate, and mentor the Data Architecture Strategy directives, principles, & standards to individuals who play data-related roles (e.g., data analysts, ETL developers, report developers & business analysts).

· Establish and maintain data standards, policies, and architectures.

· Provide direction, guidance, and oversight for data quality controls.

· Identify opportunities for standardizing data descriptions, integration and archiving, and elimination of unnecessary redundancy.

· Capture and maintain metadata, creating business rules for the use of data

· Design and optimize data governance framework including the management of data, operating model, data policies and standards.

· Participate in client design workshops and provide trade-offs and recommendations towards building solutions.

· Collaborating with teams to resolve technical requirements, feasibility, and expectations.

· Mentor Data engineers in coding best practices and problem solving.

· Working experience with Agile Methodology

· Experience working with source code management tools such as GitHub

· Experience working with Jenkins or any CI/CD Pipelines using AWS Services