Principal AWS Data Platform & ML Ops Architect (Remote, Continental United States)

Architect and Build the Shared Platform

Define the Data and MLOps Architecture

Provide Technical Design Authority

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, Data Engineer or Machine Learning)
• Extensive experience designing and building enterprise data platforms or AI/ML platforms on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience creating shared platform capabilities adopted by multiple products, projects, or business units.
• Experience consolidating separate production data systems through incremental migration and adoption.
• Strong hands-on AWS architecture experience key for Data, AI, ML Engineering including S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, Fargate, or AWS Batch, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge, OpenSearch Service, Glue and Athena, SageMaker, IAM, KMS, and CloudWatch
• Strong experience with data engineering, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, APIs, data modeling, metadata, lineage, governance, and access control.
• Strong MLOps architecture experience, including model deployment, serving, registries, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining workflows.
• Experience designing search, vector retrieval, embedding, or RAG data foundations.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Experience with multi-account AWS environments, private networking, and AWS Well-Architected principles.
• Ability and willingness to write production code and build initial critical platform components.
• Experience influencing senior engineers and enforcing architecture decisions across teams without direct management authority.
• Strong technical communication and decision-making skills.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and have lived in the US for 3 or more consecutive years.
• Must be able and willing to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Experience with document intelligence, OCR, multimodal search, data lake or lakehouse platforms, or generative AI systems.
• Experience with Amazon Textract, Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, OpenSearch vector capabilities, or AWS Lake Formation.
• Experience working with regulated, sensitive, or access-controlled data.
• Familiarity with audit, data provenance, evidence retention, tenant isolation, and model-governance requirements.
• Experience establishing shared platform practices in consulting, professional-services, or multi-client environments.
• Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization.

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BENEFITS

• We invest in our team members so you can live your best life professionally and personally, offering a competitive salary and benefits.
• Health Insurance - 100% employer-paid premiums – ICA covers the full cost of one of three offered medical plans
• Dental Insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life and Disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Leave and Holidays)
• Education and Professional Development Assistance
• Remote work from anywhere within the continental United States

LOCATION & TELEWORK

• This is a remote position following Eastern Standard Time (EST). Candidates residing in the DMV area preferred.

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