AZURE Data Architect

Role: AZURE Data Architect

Cloud Environment: AZURE

Location: Manhattan, NY (Hybrid 3 days a week to office)

Role Summary: Defines and governs the data architecture for the engagement onsite, ensuring scalable, secure and well-modeled data platforms that support analytics and AI use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise data architecture, including data models, pipelines, storage and integration patterns

• Define data standards, governance, lineage and quality practices

• Evaluate and select data platform technologies in line with client strategy

• Partner with AI Architect and Data Engineers to enable ML and AI workloads

• Review designs and code for performance, security and scalability

• Document architecture decisions and present to technical and business stakeholders

• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements

• Guide and mentor the offshore data team

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture, engineering, or analytics

• Deep expertise in data modeling (relational, dimensional, lakehouse)

• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and tools such as Databricks, Snowflake or Synapse

• Strong SQL and familiarity with Python

• Experience with data governance, MDM, and data quality frameworks

• Excellent communication with technical and business audiences

• Cloud architect or data certification preferred.

Key Skills: Data modeling | Cloud data platforms | ETL / ELT design | Data governance | SQL / Python | Solution architecture