Data Architect – Microsoft Fabric

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Design the complete Microsoft Fabric architecture, encompassing OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence, Eventstream/Eventhouse, notebooks, and semantic models.

• Create foundational architecture, standards, environmental strategies, workspace organization, security boundaries, deployment patterns, and operating principles for a new enterprise data platform.

• Guide delivery teams by converting architectural and program goals into epics, stories, tasks, dependencies, and implementation sequencing.

• Integrate fragmented operational data into a unified ecosystem utilizing domain-aligned data products, authoritative sources, shared datasets, and standardized data contracts.

• Develop operational data solutions across IT service management, workplace technology, endpoints, assets, identity, infrastructure, networks, collaboration platforms, telemetry, events, logs, and reference data.

• Design streaming and event-driven solutions in conjunction with historical, transactional, master, and reference data.

• Implement scalable raw, enriched, and curated lakehouse and warehouse patterns, including Delta designs, OneLake shortcuts, virtualization, partitioning, optimization, retention, and performance management.

• Establish data modeling principles, canonical entities, conformed dimensions, business definitions, and semantic standards.

• Define ingestion, transformation, and orchestration patterns across APIs, databases, SaaS platforms, files, CDC, batch processing, and event streams.

• Create access controls, metadata, lineage, classification, ownership, data contracts, quality standards, retention policies, and lifecycle controls.

• Develop target-state architectures, reference architectures, decision records, data flow diagrams, technical standards, reusable patterns, and roadmaps.

• Set standards for source control, CI/CD, environment promotion, infrastructure automation, testing, monitoring, deployment, and release management.

• Lead architecture reviews and provide guidance to teams on solution designs and technical decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 8 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, solution architecture, or similar roles.

• Proven experience in designing, establishing, or significantly evolving enterprise-scale data platforms.

• Experience in translating architecture and technical strategy into actionable roadmaps, epics, stories, tasks, and implementation plans.

• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead across multidisciplinary engineering teams or intricate technical programs.

• Experience in designing lakehouse and/or warehouse architectures with layered data patterns.

• Strong SQL skills.

• Proficiency in Python and/or PySpark.

• Experience in architecting data solutions on Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Azure, or similar enterprise cloud data platforms.

• Experience designing both batch and real-time/event-driven data solutions.

• Understanding of APIs, data integration, distributed data processing, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Experience in designing secure, scalable, observable, and maintainable production data platforms.

• Understanding of data modeling, metadata, lineage, governance, and data quality principles.

• Ability to assess complex technical tradeoffs and independently determine architectural approaches.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capability to work effectively in a greenfield environment.

• Preferred: Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure data technologies, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Kinesis, CDC, data governance tools, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Bicep, observability, advanced analytics, machine learning, generative AI, agentic applications, and Operations & Technology environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k).

• Paid leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Variety of discounts and perks.

• Fully remote work arrangement.