Lead Cloud Solution Architect- AI & Data (AWS)

Qualifications

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• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in data architecture, data engineering, cloud architecture, or related technical disciplines
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating data and AI workloads on AWS in enterprise environments
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated real-world experience designing and delivering enterprise data platforms, including data lakes, data warehouses, streaming architectures, and data governance frameworks
• Deep expertise in AWS data and AI platform services: Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation, Kinesis, EMR, Athena, SageMaker, Bedrock, and related ecosystem services
• Proven hands-on experience with Databricks or Snowflake deployed on AWS in enterprise environments
• Demonstrated experience designing AI-ready data architectures, including data preparation pipelines, vector stores, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns, and AI governance frameworks
• Proven ability to develop and articulate AI & Data business cases, connecting technical architecture decisions to client outcomes and measurable business value
• Experience authoring SOWs, LOEs, reference architectures, and delivery playbooks that technical teams can execute from
• Strong communication skills, able to present data and AI architecture concepts to executive audiences and technical depth to delivery teams with equal effectiveness

Strongly Desired Skills

#### AWS Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional (strongly preferred)
• AWS Certified Data Engineer: Associate or Professional
• AWS Certified Machine Learning: Specialty

##### Platform Certifications

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer (Associate or Professional)
• Snowflake SnowPro Core or Advanced: Data Engineer

Technical Depth

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* Enterprise data architecture patterns: data lakehou...