Aws Cloud Architect

Why Keyrus, Why Now

Keyrus is an international group of 2,800 consultants and experts across 28 countries, built on a single conviction: AI does not transform businesses. Architected intelligence does. For more than 30 years, we have been building the data foundations that make intelligent systems work — designing the Operating System of the intelligent enterprise, where intelligence is embedded into the core of business processes to create sustainable value: we operationalise intelligence. AI does not replace humans.

It repositions us to a place no system can follow: understanding, deciding, designing, and creating. At Keyrus, you will not just develop skills — you will develop judgment. Your expertise sharpens with every system you architect, every client challenge you solve, and every deployment that compounds on the last. Over time, you grow into one of the rarest professionals of the intelligence era: someone who bridges data, AI, and human decision‐making at scale, across industries and geographies. This is not a role you fill.

It is a discipline you master and a story you help write to become a Keyrus Architect of Intelligence. Technology amplifies. Keyrus culture differentiates. Industrial discipline connects the two.

Role Details

Job location: Barcelona, Spain (Hybrid)

Contract type: Employee / Contractor B2B

Target start date: ASAP

Working hours: Full‐time

Compensation: €60k to €80k gross per year / €350 - €450 daily rate B2B

What You'll Architect

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer & Cloud Architect, you will help organisations transform complexity into measurable outcomes by combining technology, data, intelligence, and human decision‐making. This role is both technical and consultative, perfect for someone who can combine hands‐on platform engineering, cloud architecture, automation, and technical leadership. We're looking for professionals who think like architects and act like builders, translating platform strategy into scalable, secure and high‐performing AWS data platform solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture, Engineering & Modernisation

• Design, evolve and operate enterprise‐scale AWS data platforms supporting multiple teams, tenants and data domains
• Define platform architecture, standards, guardrails and reusable implementation patterns
• Provide architectural leadership for platform initiatives, workload onboarding and the adoption of modern data and Lakehouse technologies
• Deliver scalable, secure, resilient and cost‐efficient platform services while evaluating emerging technologies and future platform capabilities

Automation, DevOps & Operational Excellence

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Terraform and Infrastructure‐as‐Code practices
• Develop automation frameworks using Ansible and scripting technologies to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Drive platform reliability, observability, governance and operational excellence through automation
• Lead incident resolution, technical troubleshooting, KPI definition and FinOps initiatives to optimise platform performance and cloud costs

Data Platform Services & Analytics

• Lead the evolution of Airflow/MWAA platform services and workflow orchestration capabilities
• Support AWS‐based data workloads leveraging Redshift and modern data processing frameworks
• Enable scalable data sharing, platform connectivity and data consumption across the organisation
• Ensure governance, metadata management, security and compliance while supporting the adoption of technologies such as dbt, Apache Iceberg and Apache Spark

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and coach engineering teams on platform engineering best practices
• Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Governance, Delivery and Business stakeholders
• Produce technical documentation, standards and reference architectures
• Lead POCs and platform modernisation initiatives, bridging architectural vision with hands‐on engineering delivery

Who You Are

• You are curious, analytical, and motivated by solving meaningful business challenges.
• You enjoy turning complexity into clarity and action. &