AWS Technical Architect

Title: AWS Technical Architect

Location: Singapore

Data Platform Leadership

• Lead the technical design and implementation of enterprise data platforms on AWS, hosted in a government cloud environment.
• Define target-state architecture for ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and reporting.
• Drive cloud-native modernization and the technology roadmap.
• Work closely with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, public sector teams, and infrastructure teams.
  
  

Data Engineering & ETL

• Build large-scale data pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Step Functions, EMR, Redshift, Athena, and EventBridge.
• Lead Talend ETL development and the migration strategy toward AWS-native services.
• Work with graph database applications (Neo4j).
• Ensure data quality, reliability, scalability, and performance.
  
  

Data Governance & Catalog

• Implement enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Manage metadata, lineage, and catalog solutions (Talend Data Catalog, AWS Glue Data Catalog) and data stewardship processes.
  
  

Master Data Management (MDM)

• Lead administration and enhancement of the TIBCO EBX MDM platform.
• Define the migration roadmap from TIBCO EBX to an AWS-native MDM architecture.
• Implement master data management, golden record management, hierarchy management, and data quality frameworks.
• Collaborate with business data owners and governance councils.
  
  

Application Integration

• Lead design, development, and support of enterprise integrations across government and external systems.
• Design API-first architectures following public sector integration standards.
• Build secure integrations between data platforms, MDM systems, COTS products, and downstream applications.
• Ensure scalability, performance, security, and monitoring of integration services.
• Support real-time, near real-time, and batch integration patterns.
  
  

Security & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with government cloud requirements, public sector standards, IM8 governance controls, whole-of-government security requirements, and data protection and access management policies.
• Implement secure cloud architecture and governance controls.
  
  

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

• Manage stakeholders across government agencies and vendors.
• Lead distributed technical teams.
• Engage senior management and architecture review boards, with strong documentation and communication.
  
  

Experience

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of overall experience (10–15+ preferred), including 8+ years in data engineering and solution architecture and 5+ years of AWS experience.
• Proven delivery of mission-critical public sector platforms.
  
  

Public Sector Experience (Mandatory)

• Delivery experience within government agencies, statutory boards, public sector technology-led initiatives, and government cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of public sector delivery methodology, whole-of-government technology standards, IM8 policies and compliance, government procurement and security review processes, and architecture review and governance processes.
• Prior Singapore public sector project experience.
  
  

Data & ETL

• Talend Data Integration and Data Catalog, ETL/ELT architecture, data migration, and data warehousing.
• Tableau expertise.
  
  

Master Data Management

• Hands-on TIBCO EBX, master data governance, reference data management, and data quality management.
• Experience migrating MDM solutions to cloud-native platforms is highly preferred.
  
  

Application Integration

• Strong experience in enterprise application and system integration.
• Hands-on with REST APIs, SOAP web services, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, event-driven architectures, and message-based integrations.
• Experience integrating AWS-native services, Talend, TIBCO EBX, Tableau, third-party COTS applications, and government shared services.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, mTLS, and API security and governance.
• Experience with AWS API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Apache Kafka (preferred).
• Experience designing canonical data models and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of API lifecycle management, versioning, documentation, testing, and monitoring.
  
  

Architecture & Governance

• Enterprise architecture, data governance frameworks, cloud governance, security architecture, API integration, and microservices.
  
  

AWS Infrastructure

• Working knowledge of EC2, VPC and networking (subnets, route tables, gateways, security groups, NACLs, VPC endpoints), IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Backup, Organizations and SCPs, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, load balancers (ALB/NLB), EBS, EFS, and CloudFormation.
• Multi-AZ architecture, high availability, disaster recovery, Infrastructure as Code, encryption at rest and in transit, and S3 lifecycle management.
  
  

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.