Sr.DataArchitect

BLEND360 is an acclaimed, forward-thinking Data, Digital Marketing, & AI Solutions Company, dedicated to fueling remarkable outcomes for our Fortune 500 clients. Our trajectory is one of continuous expansion, emerging at the crossroads of cutting-edge analytics, data proficiency, technology, and digital marketing excellence. This is an hourly position that could become permanent over time. We are looking for a highly skilled Data Architect to lead architecture design for a large-scale Marketing Data Layer initiative supporting a major telecommunications provider. This role will be responsible for defining scalable ingestion frameworks, modern data lake architecture, and data integration standards that enable reliable, near-real-time marketing data access across the enterprise. This is an opportunity to shape a high-impact AWS-based data ecosystem while partnering closely with client stakeholders, data engineering teams, and cross-functional business leaders. What You’ll Do * Design and own the ingestion architecture that moves data from 20+ enterprise source systems into the AWS Marketing Data Layer * Define scalable ingestion patterns for both legacy and direct source integrations across 18 business and data domains * Architect and document data contracts between source systems and the data layer, including: * Schema standards and versioning * SLAs and freshness expectations * Data quality and governance requirements * Design and optimize AWS S3 data lake structures, including: * Raw, staged, and curated zones * Partitioning and storage strategies * Lake Formation access controls and governance policies * Define Change Data Capture (CDC) and streaming ingestion patterns to support near-real-time data freshness requirements * Translate conceptual and logical architecture into detailed, implementable technical specifications for distributed and nearshore Data Engineering teams * Partner with engineering leadership and client stakeholders to ensure scalability, perfor