Cloud Solutions Architect – Databricks & AWS
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Job Title:
Cloud Solutions Architect – Databricks & AWS
Location : USA Remote
Visa: Any
Exp: 15+
Cloud Solutions Architect – Databricks & AWS (Banking/Capital Markets)
This role focuses on architecting secure, scalable, cloud-native data platforms on AWS using Databricks, specifically for banking, investment, and capital markets workloads. The architect acts as a bridge between business and engineering, leading cloud migrations, defining deployment patterns, and ensuring regulatory compliance, data security, and performance across large-scale financial systems.
Core Responsibilities (Condensed & Impact-Oriented)
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Architect end-to-end AWS + Databricks data platforms for financial services use cases
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Design and govern cloud-native and migration architectures (re-platform, re-architect, hybrid)
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Lead secure, compliant, and scalable data lake/lakehouse implementations
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Define and standardize deployment and migration patterns
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Guide teams on best practices for data engineering, CI/CD, and IaC
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Collaborate with business, risk, security, and engineering stakeholders
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Ensure platforms align with financial regulations and audit requirements
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Produce clear architectural documentation for global reuse and support
Mandatory Technical Skill Areas (Mapped Clearly)
Cloud & Architecture
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AWS architecture design (VPC, IAM, KMS, networking, security controls)
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Cloud migration strategies and patterns
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Cloud-native application and data architectures
Databricks & Data Engineering
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Databricks platform (clusters, jobs, workflows, notebooks)
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Delta Lake, ETL/ELT pipelines, batch & real-time processing
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Data lake / lakehouse design patterns
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Performance optimization and cost management
DevOps & Automation
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CI/CD pipelines for data platforms
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Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
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Automated provisioning, deployments, and environment management
Financial Services Domain
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Banking / Investment / Capital Markets data use cases
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Exposure to regulatory, governance, lineage, audit, and security controls
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Mission-critical, low-latency, high-availability systems
Good-to-Have Differentiators
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Databricks Certification (Associate or Professional)
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AWS Solutions Architect or Data certifications
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MLflow, advanced Databricks features
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Multi-cloud exposure (Azure / GCP)
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Strong understanding of financial data compliance and governance