Data Solutions Architect

Job Description

A well known utilities company is seeking an experienced Data Solutions Architect to support the evolution of our enterprise data and analytics platform. The organization has already established a foundational Microsoft Fabric strategy and platform. This role is focused on extending and tailoring that foundation to support specific business domains with evolving analytical, operational, self-service, near real-time, and potentially real-time data requirements.

The architect will partner closely with business stakeholders, technical leads, enterprise architects, security teams, networking teams, and engineering resources to translate business objectives into scalable, secure, and future-ready architecture designs. A key responsibility of this role is to take existing discovery work and business requirements, validate and refine those requirements through stakeholder engagement, identify capability gaps, and design end-to-end solutions that leverage Microsoft Fabric and Azure services where appropriate.

The architect must ensure proposed solutions not only satisfy current requirements but also accommodate future growth, data volume increases, self-service analytics needs, and emerging real-time use cases.

Skills and Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, or Cloud Architecture roles.
• Strong experience designing enterprise-scale analytics and data platform solutions using Microsoft Azure.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Fabric architecture, capabilities, and implementation patterns.
• Experience designing batch, near real-time, and real-time data and analytics solutions.
• Strong understanding of data integration, data engineering, analytics, reporting, and self-service data platform capabilities.
• Experience collaborating with business stakeholders to transform requirements into executable solution architectures.
• Experience working closely with networking, infrastructure, security, and platform engineering teams.
• Ability to create high-quality architecture documentation and lead architecture approval processes.

The ideal candidate is someone who can take an initial business vision and discovery effort, engage stakeholders to establish complete requirement clarity, identify future-state needs, and design a scalable architecture that supports both current and emerging business capabilities. They understand that architecture extends beyond data platforms and analytics services. They proactively identify security, network, infrastructure, integration, governance, and operational dependencies and ensure those considerations are incorporated into the overall solution design and implementation roadmap.

Most importantly, they can translate business needs into a practical, approved architecture that enables engineering teams to execute successfully while positioning the organization for future growth, self-service analytics, and evolving near real-time and real-time data requirements.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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