AWS Solutions Architect – Data Technologies; Financial Services

AWS Solutions Architect – Data Technologies (Financial Services)

We are seeking a versatile AWS Solutions Architect to support financial services customers in designing and delivering data‑centric solutions on AWS. This role blends strategic planning with tactical execution, requiring deep technical expertise, stakeholder engagement, and architectural leadership. The internal leveling will be Senior Consultant or Principal.

• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost‑effective data solutions using AWS services.
• Lead customer engagements to understand business needs and translate them into actionable technical designs and implementations.
• Provide hands‑on development and prototyping using AWS‑native tools and services.
• Guide and mentor technical teams, ensuring alignment with best practices and architectural standards.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, platform engineering, application development, information security, and release management to ensure solution delivery.
• Configure and support shared platform services to enable consistent, scalable capabilities across domains.
• Develop and promote reusable implementation patterns for adoption by development teams to accelerate delivery and ensure architectural consistency.

• Expertise in AWS data and integration services including Athena, Glue, Lake Formation, Lambda, S3, Sage Maker Unified Studio, Airflow, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, VPC, IAM.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures and serverless design patterns.
• Familiarity with Snowflake and Postgre
  
  SQL for querying and integration purposes.
• Experience with data catalogs and data lineage tools and practices to support governance and traceability.
• Knowledge of Data Zone and Bedrock is a plus.
• Strong understanding of data engineering principles, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and pipeline optimization.

• 8+ years of cloud architecture experience, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements and drive customer success.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS data services and integration tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries is a plus.
• Minimum certification requirement: AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Data Engineer – Associate.
• Familiarity with IaC using Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark.
• Experience with Git Hub, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Understanding of security and compliance frameworks relevant to financial services.

Slalom is a consulting company that helps clients deliver powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services. Our teams collaborate across 52 offices in 12 countries to bring solutions to life.

We invest in benefits that include meaningful time off, paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with match, subsidized health/dental/vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and disability coverage. We also offer a yearly $350 wellness reimbursement account and discounted insurance options.

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or other protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available. Contact ac if you require accommodations.