Azure Data Architect: AI-Driven Data Platforms

Concurrency; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Concurrency is seeking a full-time Data Architect to lead architectural design for data-intensive Azure solutions, guiding the Cloud, Data & AI Solutions team from requirements through implementation. You will design scalable data platforms, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive best practices across analytics, governance, and security.

You will mentor engineers, shape pre-sales activities, and influence client roadmaps while delivering high-velocity features in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Over 7 years of experience designing and delivering data solutions in architecture or senior leadership roles.
• Proven ability to design scalable data solutions across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical discovery and architecture design for data and analytics initiatives.
• Architect modern data platforms on Azure (lakehouse, streaming, analytics) using ADLS, Databricks, Fabric, Synapse.
• Define reference architectures, patterns, and implementation standards reusable across clients.
• Serve as trusted technical advisor guiding decisions, tradeoffs, and roadmaps to business outcomes.
• Balance ideal-state architecture with cost, timeline, data maturity, and team skills.
• Oversee solution implementations for performance, scalability, and security.
• Mentor engineers through architecture reviews and coaching; contribute to pre-sales activities.
• Integrate AI-augmented delivery practices into solution design and governance.

Skills

Data architecture

Technical leadership

Client-facing communication

Stakeholder alignment

Mentoring engineers

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)

Fabric Engineer Associate

Architecture-focused credentials

Tools

Azure Data Factory / Fabric Pipelines

Databricks PySpark

SQL

Microsoft Azure

Azure Synapse

Job description

Concurrency is seeking a full-time Data Architect to lead architectural design for data-intensive Azure solutions, guiding the Cloud, Data & AI Solutions team from requirements through implementation. You will design scalable data platforms, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive best practices across analytics, governance, and security.

You will mentor engineers, shape pre-sales activities, and influence client roadmaps while delivering high-velocity features in a fast-paced environment.