Fabric Architect
Deloitte · San Antonio, TX · 3 days ago
HybridArt & Creative$151k–$253k/yrFull-time
About the role
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses.
Responsibilities
- Leading the design and delivery of modern data and analytics solutions for client engagements
- Leading small engagements or key workstreams within large, complex data and analytics transformations across industries
- Designing and implementing cloud and hybrid data architectures, migration approaches, and technology solutions across data and analytics platforms
- Managing day-to-day stakeholder relationships and aligning technical delivery to business and program objectives
- Overseeing quality of team deliverables and recommendations while contributing to hands-on solution delivery across distributed teams
- Supporting practice growth through proposal development and deal shaping, thought leadership and AI-driven accelerators, and coaching junior practitioners
- Leading delivery of Microsoft Fabric implementation and migration engagements, applying practical, proven architecture and migration patterns across Lakehouse, Warehouse, and OneLake workloads
- Own hands-on build of the Fabric environment and its unified data platform end-to-end across workloads, translating architecture decisions and recommendations into scalable, flexible, working implementations
- Designing and building out medallion (bronze/silver/gold) layers in Fabric, and implementing role-based access control and data classification definitions
- Standing up ETL/pipeline work using Spark Notebooks, Dataflow Gen2, Fabric Data Factory with close attention to lineage preservation
- Advising across the full breadth of Fabric architecture - workspace organization/structure, CI/CD, data protection planes and best practices, capacity management, backup/DR strategy, and guidance on best fit Fabric items
- Staying current with evolving data and analytics technology platform capabilities, proactively evaluating and applying new capabilities to client solutions
Qualifications
- 6+ years experience with relevant technology project experience in data architecture, data engineering, enterprise architecture, or a related discipline
- 3+ years hands-on experience architecting and delivering end-to-end Microsoft Fabric-based solutions, including lakehouse and warehouse implementations built on Delta Lake table formats, medallion architectures, ingestion pipelines, semantic models, and governance frameworks
- Experience implementing Fabric governance and security constructs, including role-based access control (RBAC), data classification, data protection best practices, and integration with Microsoft Purview for enterprise data governance
- Working understanding of the latest Microsoft Fabric platform capabilities - such as Fabric IQ, Ontology, Graph, and Real-Time Intelligence - and how to apply them to deliver business value, including grounding agentic AI experiences in enterprise semantic and ontology layers
- Experience building ETL/pipeline solutions using Fabric Notebooks and/or Dataflow Gen2, with attention to data lineage preservation, and with dbt for transformation orchestration and modeling workflows
- Experience with Fabric platform architecture, including workspace organization/structure, CI/CD and deployment pipelines (e.g., Fabric Git integration and deployment pipelines across dev/test/prod), capacity management, and backup/DR strategy
- 4+ years hands-on experience with SQL/T-SQL and Python, including PySpark/Spark SQL for data transformation and analytics modeling, with working knowledge of REST API-based data ingestion and CI/CD practices (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub)
- 4+ years experience leading, managing and delivering complex AI&Data solutions engagements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, or related field
- Ability to travel up to 50% on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available