Cloud Data Platform Architect | Azure & Fabric Lead

Troon International; Scottsdale, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Troon’s corporate office in Scottsdale, AZ is hiring a Senior Data Platform Architect to define and govern the enterprise analytics platform across Azure and Microsoft Fabric. You will set standards for ingestion, storage, and consumption across bronze, silver, and gold layers, and lead architectural decisions for Azure services and Fabric components.

The role requires 8+ years in data engineering/architecture, strong cloud design experience, and the ability to translate business needs into

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years designing and implementing cloud-based data platforms (Azure preferred).
• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the end-to-end architecture for the analytics platform across Azure and Microsoft Fabric
• Establish architectural standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption across bronze, silver, and gold layers
• Design integration patterns between source systems, data platform, analytics tools, and downstream applications
• Lead architecture decisions for Azure services (e.g., Data Factory, Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks) and Fabric components
• Ensure interoperability and alignment between Azure-native services and Microsoft Fabric capabilities (e.g., OneLake, Direct Lake, semantic models)
• Define and enforce data modeling standards, including dimensional modeling and lakehouse design principles
• Establish best practices for performance optimization, scalability, cost management, and reliability
• Design and oversee implementation of data governance frameworks, including data quality, lineage, cataloging, and security
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and application developers to ensure architectural alignment and solution consistency
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and patterns to evolve the data platform
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams
• Participate in design reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards
• Support strategic initiatives by translating business requirements into scalable technical architectures

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

Platform engineering

Azure

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Delta Lake

Databricks

Data Factory

Job description

Troon’s corporate office in Scottsdale, AZ is hiring a Senior Data Platform Architect to define and govern the enterprise analytics platform across Azure and Microsoft Fabric. You will set standards for ingestion, storage, and consumption across bronze, silver, and gold layers, and lead architectural decisions for Azure services and Fabric components.

The role requires 8+ years in data engineering/architecture, strong cloud design experience, and the ability to translate business needs into