Senior Microsoft Fabric Architect - Data & Governance

Salt Digital Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 104,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Local Government Authority in London seeks an experienced Microsoft Fabric Architect to lead enterprise data platform strategy, governance and architecture. You will work with the Data and Platforms Team to align solutions with best practices, ensuring security, scalability and cost efficiency.

This senior role focuses on governance, data product patterns, and cloud integration, with emphasis on actionable architectural leadership and stakeholder engagement across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, reviewing and implementing enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric solutions.
• Strong knowledge of OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, notebooks, pipelines, dataflows, semantic models and Power BI
• Experience defining enterprise data architectures, Bronze, Silver and Gold Medallion patterns, reusable data products and governance frameworks
• Strong understanding of cloud security, identities, access management, data protection and compliance controls in Microsoft environments
• Experience with Azure data platform services, resource groups, subscriptions, RBAC, tagging, monitoring and integration patterns
• Experience producing architecture documentation, standards, operating models and delivery roadmaps
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership skills, including explaining complex issues to non-technical audiences
• Experience providing design assurance, mentoring and knowledge transfer to multidisciplinary teams

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture reviews, optimisation and technical assurance for new solutions and significant changes across Fabric and supporting Azure services
• Define architecture patterns across OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, notebooks, pipelines, dataflows, semantic models and Power BI; strengthen Medallion layers and reusable data products
• Strengthen governance for subscriptions, resource groups, ownership, tagging, RBAC, monitoring, costs, workspace creation, lifecycle management and environment separation; ensure associated Azure resources are documented, justified and reviewed
• Set guardrails for self-service analytics and service-led development, controlling duplication and platform growth; advise when Fabric or line-of-business systems best meet reporting, analysis, matching and operational needs
• Review security boundaries, permissions, sensitivity controls, sharing, user and service accounts, service principals, managed and workspace identities, Key Vault and governed connections
• Ensure architecture supports UK GDPR, data minimisation, DPIAs, data-sharing requirements, information governance and wider public sector obligations
• Enhance Microsoft Purview integration for cataloguing, metadata, lineage, ownership, classification and discoverability; define accountability for domains, workspaces, data products and semantic models
• Review capacity, performance and consumption, recommending workload protection, monitoring, cost optimisation, showback and chargeback approaches
• Define Dev, Test and Production practices covering source control, deployment pipelines, releases, testing, documentation and operational handover
• Provide architectural input for AI, Copilot and advanced analytics using governed, trusted data
• Produce diagrams, decision records, standards, roadmaps and options papers; work with data owners, information governance, cyber security, service leads, suppliers and Microsoft to agree sustainable solutions
• Mentor engineers, analysts, developers and platform administrators; prioritise work, manage risks and dependencies, and escalated decisions appropriately

Skills

Fabric architecture

Azure data services

Power BI

Purview

Data governance

Security & compliance

Stakeholder mgmt

Technical leadership

Tools

Azure

Power BI

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Local Government Authority in London seeks an experienced Microsoft Fabric Architect to lead enterprise data platform strategy, governance and architecture. You will work with the Data and Platforms Team to align solutions with best practices, ensuring security, scalability and cost efficiency.

This senior role focuses on governance, data product patterns, and cloud integration, with emphasis on actionable architectural leadership and stakeholder engagement across multiple teams.