AWS Architect/ Tech Lead

Deloitte

• $84K — $175K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years leading enterprise data architecture and migration initiatives
  • Deep expertise in AWS data services like S3, Redshift, and Glue
  • Strong understanding of cloud data migration patterns and practices
  • Experience designing enterprise data lake and cloud-native architectures
  • Solid grasp of data governance and security standards
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and automation frameworks in cloud data environments
  • Demonstrated stakeholder management and consulting communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead client strategy and workshops on data migration and governance
  • Design end-to-end data migration architecture and solutions
  • Drive Architecture Review Board approvals and governance
  • Provide technical direction for delivery teams throughout migration
  • Enforce data security and compliance standards on AWS
  • Facilitate efficient data movement with automation tools and frameworks
  • Establish migration roadmaps and risk assessments for modernization initiatives

Benefits

  • $4,000 annual mental health support
  • $1,300 flexible benefit spending account
  • Firm-wide closures for 'Deloitte Days'
  • Dedicated learning days for development and innovation
  • Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
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9/25/26

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Job Type: Permanent Work Model: Hybrid Reference code: 135239 Primary Location: Toronto, ON All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Halifax, NS; Kitchener, ON; Ottawa, ON; Regina, SK; Saint John, NB; Vancouver, BC; Winnipeg, MB

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What will your typical day look like?
• Lead client strategy and discovery workshops focused on data migration, data governance, security, performance benchmarking, target-state architecture, and migration guiding principles to establish a scalable AWS-based data platform vision aligned to business objectives.
• Own end-to-end data migration architecture and solutioning, including migration strategy, architecture blueprints, migration patterns, tooling recommendations, solution alternatives, risk assessments, and roadmap development for large-scale modernization initiatives.
• Drive Architecture Review Board (ARB) and governance approvals by preparing architecture artifacts, presenting solution options, addressing stakeholder concerns, and obtaining sign-off on target-state architecture, security controls, and migration approaches.
• Provide technical leadership and design governance to delivery teams by defining detailed migration architectures, data integration patterns, data models, validation frameworks, performance optimization approaches, and non-functional requirements across the migration lifecycle.
• Establish and enforce data security, governance, and compliance standards by implementing AWS-native security patterns, access controls, encryption strategies, data protection mechanisms, metadata management, lineage, auditing, and monitoring capabilities.
• Enable efficient upstream and downstream data movement through the adoption of reusable automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, data ingestion and orchestration patterns, migration accelerators, and operational controls that improve reliability, scalability, and delivery speed.

About the team

We are seeking an experienced AWS Data Architect Lead to lead the architecture and delivery of complex, enterprise-scale data modernisation and migration programmes on AWS.

In this client-facing leadership role, you will shape data strategy, define target-state architectures, establish migration and governance frameworks, and provide technical direction throughout the transformation lifecycle. You will work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders, architecture governance forums, and delivery teams to translate business objectives into scalable, secure, and high-performing AWS data solutions.

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• Significant experience designing and leading enterprise data architecture, data modernisation, and large-scale migration initiatives, ideally within complex client environments.
• Deep hands-on architectural knowledge of AWS data services, particularly Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, IAM, and KMS.
• Strong understanding of cloud data migration patterns, including ingestion, transformation, integration, orchestration, validation, reconciliation, and performance optimisation.
• Experience designing enterprise data lake, data warehouse, and cloud-native data platform architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, security architecture, access management, encryption, metadata, lineage, auditing, and monitoring.
• Experience working with Architecture Review Boards or equivalent enterprise architecture governance forums, including developing and defending architecture recommendations.
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and reusable deployment or migration frameworks within cloud data environments.
• Ability to assess architecture alternatives, identify delivery and technical risks, and translate complex technical decisions into clear recommendations.
• Strong client-facing consulting, workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to provide technical leadership across architecture, engineering, migration, security, and delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications:
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate.
• Experience leading complex cloud transformation or data platform modernisation programmes.
• Experience developing reusable architecture patterns, migration accelerators, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Consulting or professional-services experience working with senior technology and business stakeholders is an asset.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $84,000 - $175,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

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