Senior Data & AI Architect: Azure, Lakehouse & GenAI

Intellias; Polska; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias is seeking a senior data architect to lead end-to-end data platform designs for enterprise clients. You will shape the target data and AI architecture across Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry and related services, collaborating with global stakeholders.

You will deliver lakehouse models, ensure data quality and governance, and guide productionization of AI solutions while communicating trade-offs and risks to business partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or data platforms with end-to-end designs for enterprise clients.
• 3+ years as a solution or data architect.
• Hands-on Python and SQL; PySpark knowledge.
• Delivery of production data platforms and AI integrations.
• Delivered at least one generative AI solution (RAG, document AI or agents).
• Ability to explain architecture to non-technical stakeholders and defend decisions with trade-offs, cost and risk.
• English at B2+ (Upper-Intermediate) or higher for daily work with US stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the account’s target data and AI architecture, keep every initiative aligned to it, and maintain the architecture documents and decision records.
• Design lakehouse data models (medallion, Delta) with clear lineage, data quality rules and reusable data products.
• Plan environments, capacity and the path from pilot to production.
• Design integrations with enterprise systems such as Microsoft 365/SharePoint, CRM, ERP, finance and project systems, plus entity resolution to link clients, projects and documents.
• Build document intelligence pipelines that use OCR, classification and LLM‑based extraction.
• Architect RAG solutions and AI agents on Azure AI Foundry and Power Platform, with grounded answers, tool use and human‑in‑the‑loop steps.
• Set up evaluation frameworks with golden datasets, and use them to gate model and prompt changes.
• Design security and governance: Entra ID/RBAC, document‑level access, Purview, audit logging, monitoring and cost controls, plus isolated deployments where required.
• Act as the client’s trusted technical advisor: run workshops and present trade‑offs, cost and risk clearly.
• Support new client initiatives with estimates, RFP responses, demos, proposals and proofs of concept
• Mentor data and AI engineers through design reviews, code reviews and prototyping, and help grow the client’s in‑house capability.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure data services

Python

SQL

PySpark

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency (B2+)

Tools

Microsoft Fabric / OneLake

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Power Platform

Purview

Entra ID

Key Vault

Azure Monitor

Job description

Intellias is seeking a senior data architect to lead end-to-end data platform designs for enterprise clients. You will shape the target data and AI architecture across Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry and related services, collaborating with global stakeholders.

You will deliver lakehouse models, ensure data quality and governance, and guide productionization of AI solutions while communicating trade-offs and risks to business partners.