Azure Data Architect: Remote Lakehouse & Data Platform Lead

Exavalu Solutions India Pvt Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Permanent remote working

Job summary

Exavalu Solutions India Pvt Ltd is seeking an experienced Azure Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture, cloud modernization, and data platform initiatives. The role focuses on Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, and related data services to design scalable data solutions.

The ideal candidate will translate business requirements into secure, high-performing data architectures and collaborate with data engineers and stakeholders to drive modernization across on-premise to Azure.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Architect / Azure Data Architect.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Azure data services.
• Expertise in Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Azure Synapse, Databricks, and SQL.
• Strong knowledge of Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, ETL/ELT, and Data Modeling.
• Experience with Python and PySpark; large-scale data processing.
• Understanding of data integration, APIs, and real-time/batch pipelines.
• Experience with data governance, security, quality, metadata, and lineage.
• Strong architecture, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data architecture, technology strategy, standards, and roadmap.
• Design scalable Azure-based Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Lakehouse solutions.
• Lead data modernization and migration from on-premise to Azure.
• Design data integration, ingestion, transformation, and processing architectures.
• Provide technical leadership across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, ADLS, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Define data modeling, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, and integration patterns.
• Establish data governance, security, quality, metadata, and lineage frameworks.
• Evaluate architecture options for scalability, performance, reliability, and cost.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, developers, QA, and business stakeholders.
• Review designs, provide guidance, and ensure enterprise standards compliance.
• Identify risks and dependencies and recommend architecture and mitigations.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure data services

Azure Data Factory

ADLS Gen2

Azure Synapse

Databricks

SQL

Data lake / data warehouse

Data modeling

Python

PySpark

APIs

Real-time data pipelines

Data governance

Security & quality

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Azure Synapse

Power BI

Job description

Exavalu Solutions India Pvt Ltd is seeking an experienced Azure Data Architect to lead enterprise data architecture, cloud modernization, and data platform initiatives. The role focuses on Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, and related data services to design scalable data solutions.

The ideal candidate will translate business requirements into secure, high-performing data architectures and collaborate with data engineers and stakeholders to drive modernization across on-premise to Azure.