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This role is responsible for architecting modern data solutions, defining Fabric landing zones, establishing enterprise data standards, and leading the technical delivery of scalable, secure, and AI-ready analytics platforms.\nThe ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, data architecture, governance, DevOps, and enterprise integration patterns. This is a technical leadership role requiring strategic architecture experience and hands-on implementation capability.\nKey Responsibilities\nMicrosoft Fabric Architecture & Platform Design\nDesign and implement enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric solutions across OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence, Power BI, notebooks, and Spark.\n\nDefine enterprise data-platform standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and workload boundaries.\n\nDesign and optimize Direct Lake, Import, and Composite semantic model architectures.\n\nEstablish scalable, multi-domain data architectures for enterprise analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning workloads.\n\nFabric Landing Zone Design\nLead the design and implementation of Microsoft Fabric landing zones.\n\nDefine tenant architecture, workspace topology, domain strategy, capacity planning, environment separation, naming standards, and security boundaries.\n\nDesign role-based access control, Microsoft Entra ID integration, workspace governance, sensitivity labels, data-protection controls, and Microsoft Purview integration.\n\nDevelop landing-zone blueprints that support scalability, compliance, observability, operational excellence, and repeatable onboarding of business domains.\n\nDefine connectivity and network-integration patterns, including gateways, private connectivity considerations, managed identities, secrets management, and hybrid data access.\n\nData Engineering & Integration Architecture\nArchitect ingestion and transformation frameworks for ERP, CRM, SaaS, legacy databases, APIs, files, and event streams.\n\nDesign Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion patterns using Fabric Lakehouse and Warehouse capabilities.\n\nEstablish standards for data quality, lineage, transformation, metadata, master data management, schema evolution, and source-to-target mapping.\n\nDefine batch, near-real-time, and streaming integration patterns while ensuring end-to-end observability and supportability.\n\nData Governance & Security\nEstablish governance frameworks using Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview.\n\nDefine policies for metadata management, lineage, classification, stewardship, retention, access, auditability, privacy, and compliance.\n\nDesign secure architectures using Microsoft Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, private endpoints where applicable, Azure Key Vault, managed identities, and Privileged Identity Management.\n\nEnsure solution designs align with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.\n\nSemantic Modeling & Analytics Architecture\nDesign scalable semantic models for enterprise reporting, self-service analytics, and AI workloads.\n\nEstablish conformed dimensions, KPI frameworks, reusable measures, and standardized business definitions.\n\nGuide Power BI architecture, performance optimization, security, deployment, and governance.\n\nEnable governed self-service analytics through certified and reusable semantic models.\n\nAI & Large Language Model Solution Architecture\nArchitect secure, scalable AI and large language model solutions that leverage enterprise data and integrate with platforms such as Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Fabric.\nDesign retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, vectorization, prompt orchestration, model-serving, and agent-based solution patterns.\nDefine data, integration, API, identity, networking, and observability architectures required to operationalize and serve AI capabilities across enterprise applications.\nEstablish responsible AI standards covering security, privacy, grounding, content safety, evaluation, monitoring, cost management, and human oversight.\nPartner with data science, engineering, security, and business teams to evaluate AI use cases and translate them into production-ready architectures.\nDev Ops, Automation & Operations\nImplement Fabric DevOps practices using Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Fabric deployment pipelines, source control, CI/CD automation, and Infrastructure as Code.\n\nDefine release management, branching, testing, approval, rollback, and environment-promotion strategies.\n\nEstablish monitoring, logging, capacity management, cost management, incident response, and platform-support models.\n\nAutomate deployments using Terraform, Bicep, YAML pipelines, fabric-cicd, APIs, and Fabric-native capabilities as appropriate.\n\nTechnical Leadership\nServe as the technical authority for enterprise data architecture initiatives and architecture review boards.\n\nMentor Data Engineers, Data Analysts, BI Developers, and Solution Architects.\n\nLead discovery workshops, technical design sessions, proofs of concept, and client-facing architecture reviews.\n\nTranslate business and nonfunctional requirements into actionable platform and solution designs.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, business intelligence, or enterprise analytics.\n\n5+ years designing Azure-based enterprise data platforms.\n\nDemonstrated hands-on experience designing and implementing Microsoft Fabric solutions.\n\nDeep expertise in OneLake, Fabric Lakehouse, Fabric Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Spark notebooks, Power BI, semantic models, and Direct Lake.\n\nStrong understanding of medallion architecture, dimensional modeling, data vault concepts, lakehouse design, and distributed data-processing patterns.\n\nExperience designing enterprise landing zones, tenant and workspace strategies, governance models, and security frameworks.\n\nExpertise with Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Microsoft Purview, Azure Key Vault, managed identities, Conditional Access, and PIM.\n\nExperience with Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, CI/CD, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.\n\nAdvanced SQL skills plus hands-on Python and PySpark development experience.\n\nExperience integrating data across ERP, CRM, SaaS, APIs, event streams, and on-premises systems.\n\nAbility to create architecture diagrams, logical and physical data models, decision records, standards, and detailed solution-design documentation.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMicrosoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or Fabric Data Engineer Associate.\n\nMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Data Engineer Associate.\n\nExperience with Dynamics 365, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Databricks, Profisee MDM, Fivetran, or equivalent enterprise platforms.\n\nExperience with KQL, Eventstreams, Real-Time Intelligence, machine learning, Copilot, or generative AI solution patterns.\n\nExperience supporting architecture assessments, cloud-adoption frameworks, regulated environments, or Microsoft specialization audits.\n\nTechnical Skills\nCategory Core Technologies & CapabilitiesFabric Platform\nOneLake; Lakehouse; Warehouse; Data Factory; notebooks; Spark; Real-Time Intelligence; capacities; tenant and workspace administration\nAnalytics\nPower BI; semantic models; Direct Lake; DAX; dimensional modeling; performance optimization; row-level and object-level security\nEngineering\nSQL; Python; PySpark; Delta; pipelines; dataflows; APIs; batch and streaming integration; data quality and observability\nLanding Zone & Security\nTenant and workspace strategy; Entra ID; RBAC; Purview; Key Vault; managed identities; Conditional Access; PIM; governance and compliance\nDevOps & Automation\nGit; Azure DevOps; GitHub; Fabric deployment pipelines; CI/CD; Terraform; Bicep; YAML; automated testing and release controls\nAI & Large Language Models\nAzure OpenAI; generative AI; LLM architecture; retrieval-augmented generation (RAG); embeddings and vector search; semantic search; prompt and agent orchestration; APIs and model serving; responsible AI; content safety; evaluation, monitoring, and cost controls\nSuccess Measures\nSuccessful design and deployment of secure, scalable Microsoft Fabric landing zones.\n\nConsistent adoption of platform, governance, 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