Data Platform Architect: Self-Service & Fabric Governance

Avaron AB; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational pension

Wellness allowance SEK 5,000 per year

Job summary

Avaron AB is seeking a senior data‑platform architect to shape a governed self‑service platform for a global retail data landscape. You will define target architecture, guardrails, and reusable patterns, working with Microsoft Fabric and Azure data tools to enable scalable, governed data products across teams.

You will collaborate with data, platform, governance, security, IAM, cloud, and domain squads, while guiding decision records and architecture reviews to ensure robust, enterprise‑grade

Qualifications

• Proven data‑platform architecture ownership with scalable designs.
• Strong Fabric/Azure data‑platform experience with transition paths to Fabric.
• Deep knowledge of lakehouse, data warehousing, modeling, and data‑product patterns.
• Goverance, security, IAM, lineage, and metadata considerations at design level.
• Experience with API/batch/event integrations and legacy connectivity.
• Ability to defend Architecture Decision Records with senior stakeholders.
• Effective standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns for delivery teams.
• Approximately eight years of data‑platform experience with architecture ownership.
• Clear English communication.

Responsibilities

• Define target‑state architecture and platform guardrails for a self‑service data platform.
• Guide architecture decisions in Microsoft Fabric across Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Dataflows, notebooks, APIs, and integrations.
• Create reusable patterns for workspaces, environments, capacity, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Shape data‑product patterns covering layering, contracts, metadata, lineage, and consumption standards.
• Design governance approaches for catalog strategy, quality frameworks, federated governance, and platform controls.
• Define integration patterns for APIs, batch, events, CDC, D365, Dataverse, and legacy sources.
• Support secure access models, environment separation, retailer segregation, and identity patterns.
• Assess when Microsoft Fabric is right or when other platforms like Databricks fit.
• Contribute Architecture Decision Records and guidance across platform and reporting domains.

Skills

Data platform architecture

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data platform

Data governance

IAM and security

Data modeling

Stakeholder communication

Cloud orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Avaron AB is seeking a senior data‑platform architect to shape a governed self‑service platform for a global retail data landscape. You will define target architecture, guardrails, and reusable patterns, working with Microsoft Fabric and Azure data tools to enable scalable, governed data products across teams.

You will collaborate with data, platform, governance, security, IAM, cloud, and domain squads, while guiding decision records and architecture reviews to ensure robust, enterprise‑grade