Sr. Data Architect - Digital Director

Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Architecture & Strategy: Design enterprise and solution-level data architectures aligned to client business goals. Define target-state architectures, migration roadmaps, and reference architectures across analytics, AI/ML, and operational intelligence use cases.

Platform Engineering & Enablement

• Architect, implement, and optimize cloud data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, and related services.
• Guide ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and semantic modeling patterns.

Data Governance & Management

• Define and implement governance frameworks including metadata management, lineage, data quality, security, and privacy using tools such as Microsoft Purview.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment.

Analytics & AI Enablement

• Enable advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads through well-architected lakehouse, warehouse, and real-time data solutions.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide architectural leadership across project teams.
• Mentor engineers and analysts on best practices, patterns, and emerging technologies.

Client Advisory & Business Development

• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, supporting solution envisioning, proposals, and thought leadership.
• Contribute to practice development and go-to-market initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience 7+ years of relevant experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics platform design. 10 Years of experience preferred.
• Education Bachelor’s degree required; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree. Preferred fields: Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or related disciplines.

Technical Skill Concentrations

• Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold), Real-Time Analytics)
• Microsoft Azure (Foundry, Copilot Studio, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Azure SQL, Event Hubs, Functions)
• Microsoft Purview (data catalog, lineage, governance)
• Databricks (Lakehouse architecture, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)

Additional Platforms

• Snowflake, AWS (S3, Glue, Redshift), Google Cloud (BigQuery), Kafka, dbt

Programming & Query Languages

• SQL, Python, Scala

Architecture Concepts

• Data modeling, semantic layers, streaming architectures, API integration, CI/CD, infrastructure as code

Experience

• Ability to enable secure data sharing and third-party

Pay

Posting Ranges: Denver: $140,000 - $200,000 Minneapolis: $136,000 - $195,000 Sacramento: $145,000 - $210,000