About the role
TCS-WALKIN DRIVE
KOLKATA
JD
AWS Data Architect
Role Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled AWS Data Architect to design, govern, and
evolve scalable, secure, and cost‑efficient data architectures on AWS. The role
focuses on defining data strategy, reference architectures, and best practices
to enable analytics, reporting, and advanced data use cases across the
enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own end‑to‑end data architecture on AWS, including data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and consumption layers.
- Design enterprise‑grade data platforms using AWS services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lake Formation, EMR, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and RDS.
- Establish data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures aligned with business and analytical needs.
- Develop architectural standards, patterns, and reference architectures for data engineering teams.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and domain teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Ensure data governance, security, privacy, and compliance (IAM, encryption, data access control, auditing).
- Guide teams on data modeling approaches (dimensional, normalized, event‑driven, domain‑oriented models).
- Review and approve solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
- Optimize performance, scalability, and cost using AWS best practices.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical decision‑making, and mentoring of data engineers.
- Partner with DevOps, Cloud, and Platform teams on CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and observability.
Qualifications: BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING