Role & responsibilities
1. Solution Architecture & Delivery (50%)
- Design end-to-end enterprise Data Engineering solutions.
- Define architectures using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Services, Databricks, and Delta Lake.
- Design lakehouse and medallion architectures.
- Define data modeling, security, scalability, and cost optimization strategies.
- Provide technical direction and mentor Data Engineering teams.
2. Pre-sales & Customer Engagement (50%)
- Lead technical solutioning for client requirements, RFPs, and proposals.
- Conduct customer meetings, architecture workshops, and technical presentations.
- Understand business requirements and recommend appropriate Data Engineering solutions.
- Prepare technical proposals, effort estimations, and delivery approaches.
- Engage confidently with business stakeholders and technical decision-makers.
3. Technical Leadership & Governance
- Guide and mentor Data Engineering teams.
- Review technical designs and resolve architectural challenges.
- Establish data governance, security, and data quality practices.
- Ensure enterprise architecture standards and best practices.
Preferred candidate profile
- 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering and/or Data Architecture.
- Strong hands-on background in Azure Data Services.
- Good experience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Delta Lake.
- Strong understanding of SQL and Python.
- Working knowledge of dbt.
- Proven experience in Solution Architecture and end-to-end Data Engineering solutions.
- Strong pre-sales, solutioning, RFP, and proposal experience.
- Excellent customer engagement, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in at least one of these industries: Healthcare, Manufacturing, or Finance.
- Experience mentoring and leading technical teams.