Azure Cloud Architect

Cloud Architecture / Team Lead Long Term Contract Remote W2 Only Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture and Strategy: Define and lead the overall cloud data architecture and strategy, establishing standards for scalability, resilience, and performance. Data Platform Architecture: Oversee the design and deployment of the data warehouse platform, including data ingestion, transformation, storage patterns, lakehouse architecture, and data retention policies. Project and Portfolio Management: Manage multiple data integration projects and enhancement requests using Agile project management practices and Azure DevOps. Business Requirements and Change Management: Translate business requirements into actionable tasks for the data engineering team, track progress, analyze outcomes, and communicate project status, risks, and milestones. Budget and Contract Management: Coordinate with the program manager to develop and manage annual budgets, monitor staff hours and performance, and prepare weekly and monthly status reports and invoices. Program Governance: Establish and implement data engineering standards, data governance practices, and stakeholder engagement frameworks. Documentation and Engineering Standards: Improve engineering standards, technical documentation, business logic documentation, and process transparency. Data Integrations and APIs: Lead the implementation of data integrations involving APIs, batch feeds, streaming data, and SFTP file transfers. Establish API management strategies and data transfer best practices. Resource Monitoring and Cost Optimization: Monitor and troubleshoot Power BI Premium Capacity usage and Azure Synapse performance, including CPU utilization, job scheduling, pipeline failures, and compute scaling. Security and Compliance: Implement platform security architecture, including identity and access management (IAM), role-based access control (RBAC), and key management. Team Leadership: Coordinate data engineering activities, manage project priorities, and ensure timely delivery of agreed-upon enhancements and integrations. Required Technical Skills Microsoft Azure cloud platform Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Data Factory Azure SQL Azure Databricks Azure DevOps Relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Power Platform, including Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate Data warehouse and lakehouse architecture Data integration, ETL/ELT pipelines, and API integrations Agile project delivery and project management Cloud security, IAM, and RBAC Key Deliverables Lead new data integrations and enhancements for the ADAW platform. Oversee the architecture and performance of cloud-based data warehouse components. Manage project plans, user stories, milestones, and implementation tracking through Azure DevOps. Troubleshoot platform issues and implement performance and scalability improvements. Establish engineering standards, governance practices, and technical documentation. Coordinate with stakeholders and the data engineering team to ensure delivery of project requirements.