BI Data Architect (Fabric Expert)

Are you a Microsoft Fabric specialist who wants to own the whole platform instead of one slice of it?

What's the Job?

As the BI Data Architect, you'll be the in-house Fabric authority for one of New York City's most iconic cultural institutions. This is a brand-new seat — you're not inheriting someone else's architecture, you're designing what comes next.

The organization has run two successful Fabric pilots with a Microsoft medallion partner and proved the model works. Now they want that expertise in-house. You'll own the data architecture end to end: ingestion, ETL/ELT, lakehouse design, governance standards, and the Power BI layer that business users actually touch.

You'll report to the Director of BI, sit on a four-person BI team, and work directly with the CIO on the data roadmap.

Some of what you'll be doing:

• Designing and managing pipelines and lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric — moving data through Bronze, Silver and Gold layers
• Building out data governance: standards, documentation, quality monitoring, security
• Partnering with analysts to turn architecture into dashboards people trust
• Mentoring the team and bringing the wider organization along toward self-service BI

Who Are We?

We are a world-renowned New York City performing arts institution, presenting the finest artists on our stages for well over a century, and running music education and social impact programs that reach more than 800,000 people a year. We are a nonprofit with a genuine mission — and a small, tight technology group inside it.

What Skills Do I Need?

• 5–10 years in data architecture, data engineering or BI engineering
• Real, hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience — this is the one thing we can't flex on. Pipelines, Dataflows, Notebooks, Lakehouse/OneLake
• Working knowledge of medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) in production
• Strong Power BI — enterprise reporting on governed models, not just report-building
• Advanced T-SQL and the Azure data stack (Data Factory, Data Lake Storage)
• Python for data engineering and automation
• A real grasp of data governance, security and compliance
• Excellent communication — you'll be training and supporting non-technical business users every week

Nice to Have

• Azure API Management / API-first architecture
• SSRS
• Curiosity about how good architecture and data quality underpin ML and GenAI work

Compensation

• $140,000 – $150,000
• Excellent benefits, including a pension after a qualifying period
• Summer Fridays
• A real 9-to-5 culture — no weekends, no on-call heroics
• On-site five days a week for the first three months, then eligible for hybrid (3 on-site / 2 remote) at your manager's discretion. This is not a remote role.

What's In It For You?

You get to be the person who defines how a globally recognized institution uses its data — with the platform decisions in your hands and a leadership team that already believes in the work.