Azure Data Platform Architect Lead

Fractal-Analytics; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability plans

401(k) plan after 30 days

11 paid holidays

12 weeks parental leave

PTO – flexible time off

Job summary

Fractal is seeking a Lead Azure Architect for client onsite in Dallas, TX. You will translate complex requirements into scalable Azure-based data architectures, design data models, and deliver data integration via ADF and Databricks, while advising on ML Ops and cost optimization.

Role requires 10+ years in software development, strong communications, and experience with API ecosystems, Python, Spark, and both relational and non-relational data stores.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Translated complex analytical requirements into technical design including data models, ETLs and Dashboards / Reports.
• Experience deploying dashboards and self-service analytics solutions on both relational and non-relational databases.
• Dbt core or dbt cloud experience.
• Data vault 2.0 implementation experience with automate_dv package.
• Experience with different computing paradigms in databases such as In-Memory, Distributed, Massively Parallel Processing
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration, static code analysis and test-driven development.
• Experience in delivering projects in a highly collaborative delivery model with teams at onsite and offshore.
• Experience working on APIs, ADFs, Python and Spark.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must.

Responsibilities

• Translate functional requirements into technical design.
• Interact with clients and internal stakeholders to understand the data and platform requirements in detail and determine core Azure services needed to fulfil the technical design.
• Architect on Azure platform to meet client specific functional and non-functional requirements.
• Evaluate the current technology landscape and recommend a forward-looking technology vision.
• Participate in creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures.
• Preparing and answering RFPs, RFIs and RFQs.
• Oversee design and solution architecture to ensure standards are followed, codebase is modular and scalable.
• Estimate effort using a parametric estimation model and bring stakeholders on-board about the overall schedule, and dependencies.
• Design, Develop and Deliver data integration interfaces in ADF and Azure Databricks.
• Deliver data models on Azure platform, it could be on Azure Cosmos, SQL DW / Synapse or SQL.
• Advise clients on ML Engineering and deploying ML Ops at Scale on AKS.
• Automate core activities to minimize the delivery lead times and improve the overall quality.
• Optimize platform cost by selecting right platform services and architecting the solution in a cost-effective manner.
• Deploy Azure DevOps and CI CD processes.
• Deploy logging and monitoring across the different integration points for critical alerts.

Skills

Azure architecture

Data models & ETLs / Dashboards

Relational & non-relational databases

Dbt core/cloud

Data vault 2.0 (automate_dv)

In-Memory / Distributed / Massively-MP

CI/CD / static code analysis / TDD

Onsite-offshore delivery

APIs, ADFs, Python, Spark

Analytical problem solving

Tools

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Analytics

Azure Cosmos

Azure Data Factory

Azure SQL Database

Azure HDInsight

Azure Databricks

Synapse

Job description

Fractal is seeking a Lead Azure Architect for client onsite in Dallas, TX. You will translate complex requirements into scalable Azure-based data architectures, design data models, and deliver data integration via ADF and Databricks, while advising on ML Ops and cost optimization.

Role requires 10+ years in software development, strong communications, and experience with API ecosystems, Python, Spark, and both relational and non-relational data stores.