Microsoft Fabric Architect

Must-Have Skills & Qualifications

• 12+ years overall experience in data engineering/data platform roles.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience architecting and implementing on Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong proficiency in SQL (performance tuning, complex transformations, analytics-ready modeling).
• Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory (or Fabric pipelines), including orchestration patterns and parameterized pipelines.
• Strong hands-on development in PySpark for scalable transformation workflows.
• Experience implementing CI/CD for data workloads (Azure DevOps/GitHub, automated deployments, environment management).
• Strong understanding of data engineering fundamentals (ingestion, transformations, modeling, orchestration, testing).
• Strong knowledge of modern data architectures such as Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Data Vault, and related patterns.
• Hands-on knowledge with semantic layer creation, report creation and DAX functions.
• Capacity planning and Workload optimization.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Snowflake (architecture, migration, performance).
• Experience with Microsoft Purview for cataloging, lineage, and governance.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, and lineage within the Microsoft ecosystem (access controls, auditing, compliance).
• Exposure to Power BI and Semantic Models (DAX/modeling is a plus).
• Fabric certifications DP-600 and DP-700 Purview and Fabric integration.

Key Technical Skills

• Strong SQL (performance tuning, complex transformations).
• Hands-on PySpark (preferably within Fabric).
• Fabric Pipelines & orchestration.
• Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
• CID/CD experience (Azure DevOps / GitHub).
• Mandatory experience with Power BI, including semantic models and DAX.