Principal Data Platform Architect — Modern Data & Migrations

Elysium Digital; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elysium Digital in Australia is seeking a Principal Data Platform Architect to design practical, scalable data platforms that deliver value quickly and sustainably. You will guide delivery, coach engineering teams and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve complex data challenges.

The role focuses on architecture in delivery, modernisation initiatives, and governance, with hands-on leadership across data lakehouse, warehouse and semantic layers.

Qualifications

• Australian Citizenship and willingness to acquire AGSVA security clearances.
• Significant experience as a Data Architect/Data Platform Architect or similar role.
• Recent hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric including OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Factory, Pipelines, Notebooks, Deployment Pipelines, Workspace and Capacity Management.
• Strong understanding of the Microsoft data ecosystem including Power BI, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Microsoft Purview, Entra ID.
• Experience delivering data platform migrations and modernization programs.
• Strong data modelling across lakehouse, warehouse and semantic layers.
• Experience implementing governance, security, metadata and lineage as part of platform design.
• Ability to lead engineering teams and guide implementation activities.

Responsibilities

• Design modern data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and Power BI.
• Define pragmatic architecture patterns for engineering teams to implement.
• Lead platform modernization and migrations from Synapse, SQL Server and legacy platforms.
• Design lakehouse, warehouse and semantic model architectures.
• Establish security, governance, metadata, lineage and access control patterns.
• Coach data engineers and technical teams during implementation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to solve complex data challenges.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance across engagements.
• Balance capability, cost and complexity in technology decisions.
• Contribute to reusable patterns and accelerators.

Skills

Data Platform Architecture

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse

Power BI

Data governance

Security governance

Lead engineering teams

Migration & modernization

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

GCP

Azure Data Factory

OneLake

Pipelines

Job description

Elysium Digital in Australia is seeking a Principal Data Platform Architect to design practical, scalable data platforms that deliver value quickly and sustainably. You will guide delivery, coach engineering teams and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve complex data challenges.

The role focuses on architecture in delivery, modernisation initiatives, and governance, with hands-on leadership across data lakehouse, warehouse and semantic layers.