Lead Consultant | Data On Cloud - Platform | AWS

Work Location: Philadelphia, PA 19104 – hybrid work set-up

Contract duration: 4 months | Target Start Date: 03 Aug 2026 | Visa-independent candidates only

About the Role

Company is seeking a highly experienced Enterprise/Solution Architect to partner with Commercial business stakeholders and Enterprise Architecture leadership. The role involves assessing the current-state loyalty ecosystem, defining strategic business and technology requirements, and developing a future-state architecture roadmap for loyalty modernization. This position requires a blend of business strategy, enterprise architecture, and AWS cloud expertise, with a strong focus on customer engagement, personalization, and loyalty platforms within the travel and hospitality domain.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the existing loyalty platform, business processes, integrations, and technology landscape.
• Collaborate with Commercial business partners, product owners, and technology teams to understand current challenges, future objectives, and growth opportunities.
• Define and document the target-state architecture for Company's loyalty ecosystem, including business, application, data, integration, and cloud architecture components.
• Develop strategic architecture recommendations aligned with business goals, customer engagement initiatives, and loyalty program evolution.
• Lead stakeholder workshops and architecture discussions with business and technology leadership.
• Create executive-level architecture artifacts, future-state diagrams, capability maps, implementation roadmaps, and recommendation documents.
• Design scalable and customer-centric loyalty solutions that support personalization, member engagement, rewards management, and omnichannel experiences.
• Evaluate existing platforms, identify modernization opportunities, and recommend AWS-native or cloud-based architectural patterns.
• Ensure architecture alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, scalability needs, and operational excellence principles.
• Present findings and recommendations to Enterprise Architecture leadership and senior business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• AWS Architecture
• Future-State Architecture Design
• Cloud Transformation
• Technology Roadmap Development
• Data Architecture

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Loyalty Platform Strategy
• Business Capability Modeling
• Customer Personalization

Top 3 Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the existing loyalty platform, business processes, integrations, and technology landscape.
• Define and document the target-state architecture for Company's loyalty ecosystem, including business, application, data, integration, and cloud architecture components.
• Design scalable and customer-centric loyalty solutions that support personalization, member engagement, rewards management, and omnichannel experiences.