A large global professional services organisation is undertaking a major transformation of its enterprise data landscape, building a modern Microsoft Fabric-based data platform and strengthening its internal Data & AI capability.

They are looking for an experienced Data Architect to lead the architecture, standards and design of this new data environment.

The Role

• Lead the architecture and design of the Microsoft Fabric data platform
• Define patterns for Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Analytics, Semantic Models and Data Engineering
• Design scalable data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption patterns
• Define enterprise conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Establish metadata-driven architecture, data lineage and cataloguing standards
• Define Master Data Management (MDM) principles
• Develop enterprise data architecture standards and roadmaps
• Design integration architectures using APIs, event-driven patterns and ETL/ELT
• Embed data governance, security and data quality
• Work across data engineering, analytics, architecture and business teams

Key Skills

• Strong Data / Enterprise Data Architecture background
• Extensive Microsoft Fabric experience
• Azure Data Platform
• Lakehouse, Warehousing and Data Engineering
• Enterprise data modelling
• Metadata management, lineage and data catalogues
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Data governance and data quality
• APIs, ETL/ELT and integration patterns
• SQL
• Strong stakeholder management and architectural leadership