Data Architect – MS Fabric, Data Vault & Data Governance

About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to play a pivotal role in a large-scale enterprise data transformation initiative. Supporting foundational streams across analytics, reporting, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and data governance, you will help shape the future of a modern data ecosystem that enables trusted, scalable, and insight-driven decision-making.

Working closely with business leaders, technical teams, and data stakeholders, you will provide architectural leadership across the full data lifecycle. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide standards, modernize data capabilities, and help establish a strong foundation for AI readiness within a complex and evolving environment.

• Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data strategy and architecture
• Exposure to modern Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Lakehouse technologies
• A collaborative environment that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
• The ability to contribute to high-impact analytics, governance, and AI initiatives
• A culture that supports professional growth and thought leadership

• Provide architectural leadership across the data platform, ensuring end-to-end design integrity from ingestion through consumption.
• Define and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, patterns, guardrails, and reusable frameworks.
• Act as the design authority for Microsoft Fabric, including Medallion architecture, Data Vault integration, and Lakehouse design decisions.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models that support analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
• Establish modelling standards across integration and consumption layers, ensuring scalability and consistency.
• Embed governance principles into platform design, supporting metadata management, data quality, lineage, classification, and stewardship.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to translate requirements into sustainable and scalable architecture solutions.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise data architecture and modern data platform design
• Proven hands-on experience implementing Medallion architecture and Data Vault 2 in production environments
• Strong expertise in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling, including dimensional modelling and Erwin Data Modeler
• Experience designing Lakehouse or Data Lake solutions using Microsoft Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure Integration Services, and Microsoft Fabric
• Knowledge of semantic architectures, business glossaries, ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graphs
• Experience implementing data governance and catalog solutions such as Collibra or Microsoft Purview
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

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