Azure Data Architect for AI/ML & Multi-Cloud Platform

Oddball; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

401(k) plan

Flexible PTO

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Oddball is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to own enterprise cloud data architectures across Azure and multi-cloud environments. You will lead modernization efforts, define governance and security strategies for sensitive Veteran data, and enable AI/ML workflows.

Remote collaboration with VA stakeholders and data teams is essential for delivering scalable data products. The role emphasizes crafting deployment pipelines, ensuring compliance, and documenting architectures for governance and

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and managing enterprise cloud data architectures in Azure
• Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads
• Experience with Power BI or similar visualization platforms
• Familiarity with AWS data services is a plus given the multi-cloud environment
• Strong background in data governance, security compliance, and federal data standards including FISMA and NIST 800-53
• Experience with large-scale data migration and architecture modernization efforts
• Ability to produce clear, detailed technical architecture documentation
• Thrives in a remote, collaborative Agile environment and genuinely enjoys working across engineering, product, and government stakeholder teams
• Communicates clearly and openly, whether presenting architecture decisions to leadership or working through integration design with engineers

Responsibilities

• Own and document cloud data architecture across a multi-cloud environment with a primary focus on Azure and Azure Databricks
• Lead data architecture modernization efforts including migration strategy, data modeling, and platform engineering
• Design and implement governance, security, and compliance strategies for a platform handling sensitive Veteran data
• Enable data science and AI/ML capabilities on the platform including model deployment infrastructure and data pipelines
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and VA stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and consumable data products
• Support data ingestion, curation, and interoperability across disparate VA source systems
• Build and maintain technical architecture documentation, security strategies, and compliance artifacts

Skills

Azure

Azure Databricks

Data architecture

AI/ML workloads

Power BI

AWS data services

Data governance

Security compliance

Documentation

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Power BI

AWS data services

Job description

Oddball is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to own enterprise cloud data architectures across Azure and multi-cloud environments. You will lead modernization efforts, define governance and security strategies for sensitive Veteran data, and enable AI/ML workflows.

Remote collaboration with VA stakeholders and data teams is essential for delivering scalable data products. The role emphasizes crafting deployment pipelines, ensuring compliance, and documenting architectures for governance and