We're seeking a Resident Data Architect to support Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio along with the wider data infrastructure for an extended engagement, with focus areas spanning serverless data pipelines, contemporary data lake design, and agentic AI integration built around AWS cloud-native principles.

Responsibilities

Configure, administer, and maintain Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, covering data catalog management, blueprint handling, and serverless compute functionality
Facilitate self-service data exploration, discovery, and analysis capabilities for both technical and business users through SMUS
Keep SMUS blueprints and templates up to date to enable repeatable and well-governed data workflows
Supervise SMUS IAM domains, access control policies, and governance-related configurations
Design the client's underlying data architecture on AWS with attention to scalability, governance, and performance
Refine data lake structures leveraging Amazon S3, incorporating contemporary storage formats like Parquet, Iceberg, and Delta
Put in place strategies for data cataloging,



partitioning, and lifecycle management across large-scale data environments
Bring Amazon OpenSearch Service into the architecture to support search, analytics, and data exploration needs
Construct serverless data pipelines utilizing AWS Glue and AWS Lambda
Build ETL/ELT jobs to handle data ingestion, transformation, and delivery throughout the data platform
Facilitate the integration and rollout of Quick Suite to support analytics, dashboards, and self-service reporting capabilities
Apply principles from the AWS Well-Architected Framework, with particular attention to security, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency

Requirements

8 or more years of background in data architecture, data engineering, or a related discipline within AWS cloud settings
Strong command of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and data lake architectural design
Skilled in AWS Glue and AWS Lambda for building serverless data

📌 Resident Data Architect (Chennai)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Chennai