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AWS Cloud Data Architect

Collabera LLCMcLean, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 26 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$75 - $80/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
McLean, VA, United States
Posted
20 hours ago
DynamoDBAWSEncryptionRedshift

Job Description

Job Description:


Job Title: AWS Cloud Data Architect (IT - Information Systems Architect)

Location: McLean, VA 22102 / Memphis, TN 38117 (Hybrid Role)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract Role + Extension





Pay Range: $75/hr. to $80/hr.

Job Description:



Interviews- 2 rounds



  • 1st round- 1 hr. video



  • 2nd round- 1 hr. onsite



  • Reporting to the Senior Manager, HSM Digital Solutions, you will help design and build HSM's next-generation cloud data lake and modern data platform. You will partner with business stakeholders, Technology, data engineering teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud data solutions that support procurement analytics, digital products, and AI-powered capabilities.




Must have 3+ years of experience in the following:



  • Design and document AWS cloud database architectures that support performance, scalability, availability, security, governance, and cost optimization requirements.



  • Lead the modernization and migration of legacy on-premises databases and data platforms to AWS cloud services.



  • Architect and optimize data solutions using AWS services such as A-mazon RDS, A-mazon Aurora, A-mazon Redshift, A-mazon DynamoDB, A-mazon S3, AWS Glue, A-mazon Athena, AWS Database Migration Service, and related monitoring and security services.



  • Define database patterns for transactional, analytical, integration, and reporting, including OLTP, OLAP, and data lake workloads.



  • Develop architecture standards, reference patterns, design decision records, runbooks, deployment playbooks, and operational best practices.



  • Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, governance, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met.



  • Develop migration plans, proofs-of-concept, cutover strategies, rollback plans, validation approaches, and post-migration optimization activities.



  • Partner with security and governance teams to implement encryption, IAM, network isolation, auditing, logging, data retention, access controls, and compliance requirements.



  • Drive performance tuning and optimization through data modeling, indexing, partitioning, query tuning, workload management, capacity planning, and observability practices.



  • Implement and promote automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, schema migration practices, and repeatable deployment patterns for database-backed solutions.



  • Develop dashboards and operational metrics for database health, cost, usage, SLAs, reliability, and platform performance.



  • Collaborate with application, integration, analytics, and reporting teams to translate business requirements into practical database and data-platform solutions.



  • Review and provide recommendations on cloud architecture designs developed by vendors and solution partners.



  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies to support cloud data platform modernization and AI-enabled business initiatives.




Thank you

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually as applicable.

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