Lead the design and governance of an enterprise data platform, ensuring it is secure and AI-ready through architecture, data engineering, compliance, and performance optimization.
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned Azure Solutions Architect specializing in Microsoft Fabric to lead the design and governance of our enterprise data platform. You will bridge traditional Azure infrastructure with unified SaaS capabilities, ensuring our data ecosystem is secure, performant, and AI-ready.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architecture & Design: Architect end-to-end data solutions using Microsoft Fabric workloads, including OneLake, Lakehouse, and Warehouse.
- Data Engineering: Implement Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers) and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Fabric Data Pipelines and Dataflows Gen2.
- Governance & Compliance: Define and enforce platform governance using Microsoft Purview, ensuring data lineage, access control, and regulatory compliance.
- Performance Optimization: Monitor and tune Fabric Capacity (SKUs) to optimize cost-efficiency and processing speed.
- BI Integration: Design high-performance semantic models and visualizations in Power BI using Direct Lake mode.
- AI Enablement: Design metadata patterns and structures to support Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workloads.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Skills
- Experience: 10+ years in Data Architecture/Engineering, with 5+ years in Azure and 2+ years specifically in Microsoft Fabric
- Experience with Real-Time Intelligence and Data Activator within Fabric.
- Familiarity with the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
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