Azure Data Architect

This is a hands-on architecture position for someone who can design scalable cloud data platforms, establish reusable standards, and partner across engineering, governance, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and business teams. The right candidate will bring both strategic architecture judgment and practical implementation depth.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define enterprise data architecture strategy, roadmaps, standards, and target-state designs.
• Design secure, scalable cloud data architectures across lakehouse, analytics, governance, and AI/ML use cases.
• Lead architecture for Azure-native data platforms, including Databricks, data lake, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and distributed processing ecosystems.
• Establish standards for data modeling, metadata, lineage, semantic layers, reference architecture, integration patterns, and lifecycle management.
• Drive AI-ready architecture initiatives, including semantic modeling, vector-r...