Senior Data Architect (AWS Data Platforms)

Job Title: Senior Data Architect – AWS
Location: Dubai, UAE (Onsite)
Experience Required: 12+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Mode: Onsite

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Architect with 12+ years of experience to design, build, and govern enterprise-scale AWS data platforms. The role is fully onsite in Dubai and requires strong hands-on architectural expertise across AWS data services, batch processing frameworks, orchestration, and data governance. The ideal candidate will lead data architecture strategy, mentor engineering teams, and ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and own end-to-end AWS data architecture for enterprise platforms

• Define data architecture standards, best practices, and reference models

• Architect batch and event-driven data pipelines using AWS native services

• Lead data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows

• Design and implement solutions using AWS Glue, EMR, Lambda, and MWAA (Airflow)

• Architect data lakes and data warehouses using Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift

• Design NoSQL data solutions using Amazon DynamoDB

• Implement data governance, metadata management, and access control using AWS DataZone

• Ensure monitoring, logging, and observability using Amazon CloudWatch

• Partner with engineering, analytics, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions

• Lead cloud migration and data modernization initiatives

• Ensure security, compliance, performance optimization, and cost efficiency

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architecture reviews

Required Skills and Technologies

• AWS Glue (ETL, Data Catalog)

• Amazon EMR (Batch Processing)

• AWS Lambda (Serverless Data Processing)

• Amazon MWAA (Apache Airflow)

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon CloudWatch

• Amazon Redshift

• Amazon DynamoDB

• AWS DataZone

• Amazon S3 (Data Lakes)

• SQL (Advanced)

• Data Modeling (Dimensional, Relational, Lakehouse)

• AWS IAM, Security, Encryption, Networking

• Distributed Data Processing

Experience and Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data Engineering and Data Architecture

• Proven experience working as a Data Architect on large-scale AWS platforms

• Strong experience designing enterprise data lakes and data warehouses

• Hands-on experience with batch data processing and orchestration frameworks

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to work onsite in Dubai, UAE

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

• AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

• Experience with enterprise data governance frameworks