Senior Data Architect / Fabric Specialist

This is a remote position. Job Objective: Design, implement, and optimize end-to-end analytical solutions in Microsoft Fabric, ensuring data quality, scalability, governance, and alignment with business needs.

Responsibilities

Design architecture based on Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold). Implement scalable ETL/ELT processes, historical loads, incremental loads, and CDC. Configure and manage Fabric Capacity. Ensure data governance through Microsoft Purview. Optimize Delta tables (Partitioning, Optimize/Z-Order/V-Order). Integrate data from multiple sources (APIs, SFTP, ERP, SQL Server, ADLS Gen2).

Manage access control, auditing, traceability, and data quality. Document processes and architectures clearly. Collaborate with BI, Data Quality teams, and business users.

Requirements

3–6+ years in Data Engineering / Analytics. 1–2 years working directly with Microsoft Fabric or participating in migrations from Azure/Synapse. Deep knowledge of OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Pipelines. Strong SQL and Python skills (essential for Notebooks). Expertise in Delta Lake and Parquet formats. Familiarity with access control, error handling, and reprocessing.

Technical Skills: Fabric Data Factory (Pipelines) and prior experience with Azure Data Factory / Synapse. Fabric Data Engineering (Spark) with experience in Databricks / Synapse. Power BI (advanced semantic modeling, Direct Lake). PySpark, advanced SQL, Power Query / Dataflows Gen2. Git / Azure DevOps (version control, deployment pipelines).

Governance and security in Fabric (Workspaces, Roles, OneSecurity). Desirable Plus: Knowledge of Data Activator for real-time responses. Familiarity with Copilot in Fabric. Certifications: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Azure Data Engineer Power BI Data Analyst Soft Skills: Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Effective communication with cross-functional teams. Clear and structured documentation. Autonomy and sound technical judgment (Fabric is still evolving).

Benefits

Work remotely High-performance team Excellent work culture Competitive compensation package