Solutions Architect - Microsoft Fabric

Perficient’s Microsoft Cloud Business Unit is investing heavily in
Microsoft Fabric
services and governance offerings. We are seeking a Solutions Architect – Microsoft Fabric
to accelerate this vision.

Job Overview:

As the senior authority for Fabric, you will:

• Define the strategic roadmap
  for Fabric-based data-platform services, reusable IP, and delivery accelerators.
• Lead enterprise engagements
  that span capacity migration (P- to F-capacities), Purview-driven data-governance, and tenant-wide adoption of Fabric experiences.
• Partner with sales, alliances, and Microsoft field teams
  to shape pursuits, craft SOWs, and present solution visions to C-level and technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and scale
  a geographically distributed team of architects, engineers, and analysts while championing best practices.

You will collaborate with Fortune 500 clients who are modernizing mission-critical analytics platforms—addressing performance, cost, and governance challenges—while building out Perficient’s Fabric center of excellence.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Own Fabric practice architecture
  • Author the reference architecture, standards, and reusable templates for Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Real-Time Analytics, and Power BI semantic layers.
  • Define One Lake organization patterns, workspace taxonomy, and naming conventions that scale across business units.
• Implement capacity planning (P-> F migration strategy, chargeback models, cost-optimization telemetry).
• Integrate
  Microsoft Purview
  for lineage capture, sensitivity labeling, RBAC, and policy-based access control.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code automation to enforce standards.
• Drive solution discovery and design
  • Lead assessment workshops to capture current-state, pain points, and capability gaps.
  • Produce detailed architecture diagrams, epics, stories, and release plans aligned to phased roadmaps.
• Delivery leadership
  • Guide multiple Agile squads through sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative releases.
  • Remove technical impediments, manage risks, and ensure quality via design reviews and architecture governance boards.
• Presales & alliance collaboration
  • Create POVs, prototypes, and demos showcasing Fabric governance accelerators.
  • Develop level-of-effort estimates, staffing models, and SOW language for new pursuits.
  • Deliver client-facing presentations jointly with Microsoft GTM teams; participate in executive briefings and industry events.
• Thought leadership & mentoring
  • Publish blogs, whitepapers, and conference talks on Fabric best practices and governance trends.
  • Coach architects, engineers, and data analysts; establish training paths and internal “Fabric Guild” meetups.
• Track Microsoft roadmap, preview features, and funding programs—adjusting Perficient offerings accordingly.
• Capture project lessons learned to refine IP, templates, and engagement playbooks.

• 10–15 years architecting enterprise data-analytics solutions; 5 + years delivering Azure-based modern data platforms.
• Deep, hands-on mastery of Microsoft Fabric
  , including:
  • Data Engineering (Lakehouse / Delta tables, notebooks, Dataflows Gen2)
  • Data Factory (ETL / ELT pipelines, ADF-to-Fabric migrations)
  • Data Warehouse (T-SQL, performance tuning, high-concurrency workloads)
  • Real-Time Analytics (KQL databases, Data Activator, streaming pipelines)
  • Power BI (semantic modeling, Direct Lake, Composite models, deployment pipelines)
• Proven track record designing and implementing tenant-level governance frameworks
  : workspace sprawl control, capacity management, cost show-back, security, and Purview-based lineage.
• Consulting experience: presales estimations, SOW creation, team-structure definition, and executive-level presentations.
• Required certification
  :
• DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
• Preferred certifications
  :
• AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• DP-700…