Azure Data & AI Architect - Solution Delivery Leader

Data#3; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Data#3 is seeking a delivery‑focused Data & AI Architect to join our Professional Services team. You’ll lead solution design for modern data platforms and AI‑enabled solutions on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, working directly with customers to define architecture, shape approaches, and guide decision‑making.

This hands‑on consulting role suits someone who enjoys solving complex problems, shaping modern data approaches, and engaging with customers to deliver practical, secure and well‑governed data

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in data engineering, architecture or analytics solution design.
• Strong consulting capability and experience.
• Excellent communication skills – able to simplify complexity and guide customer decision‑making.
• Proven ability to produce high‑quality architecture documentation (HLDs, LLDs, recommendations, decision logs).
• Experience implementing governance, lineage, quality and security‑by‑design.
• Hands‑on experience configuring and deploying Fabric and Azure data components.
• Confident interacting with stakeholders at all levels and supporting decisions with structured reasoning.
• Certifications such as AZ-305, AI-102, DP‑600, DP‑700, or DP‑900 (or willingness to obtain).

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for Microsoft Fabric and Azure data platforms.
• Implement data pipelines, lakehouse structures, orchestration approaches and platform configuration.
• Shape and deliver AI‑enabled solutions using Azure Foundry and Azure AI/Cognitive services.
• Implement AI components: model deployments, vector indexes, embeddings, and semantic search.
• Design structured prompting and intelligent automation workflows.
• Produce high‑quality documentation such as HLDs, LLDs, data models, diagrams and decision records.
• Facilitate workshops and guide customers through solution options, risks and implications.
• Conduct discovery, requirements analysis and technical assessments.
• Support pre‑sales with solution input and estimates when needed.
• Contribute to uplift of Data#3’s Data & AI capability through delivery excellence.

Skills

Consulting

Communication

Architecture documentation

Governance

Stakeholder engagement

Structured reasoning

Problem solving

Azure Fabric deployment

Azure data components

RAG patterns

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure (Azure Foundry, AI services)

Fabric & Azure data pipelines

HLD/LLD tooling

Job description

Data#3 is seeking a delivery‑focused Data & AI Architect to join our Professional Services team. You’ll lead solution design for modern data platforms and AI‑enabled solutions on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, working directly with customers to define architecture, shape approaches, and guide decision‑making.

This hands‑on consulting role suits someone who enjoys solving complex problems, shaping modern data approaches, and engaging with customers to deliver practical, secure and well‑governed data