Cloud Data Architect

About the Role

This role is ideal for a seasoned data professional with extensive experience designing and managing cloud-based data solutions within a complex enterprise environment. The position involves leading the architecture, development, and optimization of business intelligence structures, leveraging AWS services and modern data modeling techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs and architects complex data schemas, repositories, and metadata structures to support business intelligence initiatives.
• Configures database parameters, allocates resources, and ensures data loaded into systems is accurate and reliable.
• Leads troubleshooting efforts for database applications, analyzing data requirements, and maintaining application and schema architectures.
• Establishes data integrity and quality standards, monitoring overall data health and consistency.
• Develops and optimizes data analytic models, ad-hoc queries, and reports for management and audit purposes.
• Implements software testing, including unit testing, ETL validation, and scripting for moderate complexity.
• Collaborates within an Agile team to develop capabilities for data reporting, dashboards, governance, and data sharing.
• Develops conceptual, logical, and physical IT designs aligned with business needs and technical infrastructure.
• Analyzes business requirements to ensure technical solutions are traceable to organizational goals.

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant work experience in data architecture, engineering, or analytics.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant discipline.
• Broad knowledge of SQL, data warehouses, relational databases, and data analytic techniques.
• Experience with AWS core services including S3, Glue, Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL, and related tools.
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform.
• Strong programming skills in Java EE/Cloud technologies, including Java Lambdas, Streams API, and Java functional programming.
• Familiarity with Python or Scala.
• Good understanding of AWS Identity and Access Management, Networking, and Monitoring tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications related to AWS or Data Architecture.
• Knowledge of data tools such as Workday Adaptive & Prism, and Ariba.

About Delphi-US

Delphi-US is a national IT Services firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. Delphi attracts our nation's best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and positions our nation's finest employers to further their competitive advantages. Delphi's core technical focus includes Data Intelligence Engineering & Analytics, AI/ML Operational Excellence, DevOps & Cloud Computing, Health IT & Life Sciences, and Energy Management/Power Systems; serving domains from sensitive national energy sectors to critical financial services, biomed, life sciences & pharma, major government & municipal institutions, and much of the USA's Fortune 500 corporations. Delphi Associates are deployed on critical IT Projects where their consultative business acumen, comprehensive technical expertise, and committed service mission drives our client's success. Our proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process results in higher qualified project teams, custom curated for our client's specific technical & functional goals. We are supremely experienced, friendly, professional, and ready to advocate on your behalf. Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations, a track record of project success and we deliver lasting results.