Fabric Architect & Data Platform Lead

Zone IT Solutions Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zone IT Solutions Pty Ltd in Australia is hiring an experienced Microsoft Fabric Architect to lead the architecture, design and delivery of an enterprise data platform for a regulated environment.

You will guide data development across Fabric components, apply medallion architecture, ensure security and governance, and collaborate with Azure, security, networking and DevOps teams through production delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in architecting enterprise data platforms using Microsoft Fabric and related lakehouse components.
• Strong ability to size and optimize workloads, and to drive cost efficiency in a regulated environment.
• Proven capability to define and maintain architecture governance, standards and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architecture, target state, standards, guardrails and design governance.
• Design OneLake, workspace and environment structures across Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Notebooks, Semantic Models and Power BI.
• Define Bronze, Silver and Gold data layers, enterprise data models and consumption patterns, including Direct Lake, Import and DirectQuery.
• Lead the design of a reusable metadata-driven ingestion framework for batch, incremental, change data capture and streaming workloads.
• Review all the deliverables - like developed code (data related), design documents from other supporting tracks like - data governance, Azure foundations, networking, security, DevOps.
• Establish orchestration, data quality, observability, restartability, quarantine and remediation patterns that enable configuration-led source onboarding.
• Size and optimise Fabric capacities for performance, workload isolation, scalability and cost across development, test and production environments.
• Set SQL, PySpark, Delta Lake and notebook engineering standards, and provide technical assurance through architecture and code reviews.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Capacity management

Architecture frameworks

Data modelling

Orchestration

Tools

Power BI

Data Factory

OneLake

Job description

Zone IT Solutions Pty Ltd in Australia is hiring an experienced Microsoft Fabric Architect to lead the architecture, design and delivery of an enterprise data platform for a regulated environment.

You will guide data development across Fabric components, apply medallion architecture, ensure security and governance, and collaborate with Azure, security, networking and DevOps teams through production delivery.