Enterprise Data Architect, Microsoft Fabric

Sealed Air Corporation; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealed Air Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina, seeks a Principal Enterprise Data Architect to lead the Microsoft Fabric strategy and delivery across global teams.

You will architect data ingestion, lakehouse and warehouse patterns, and governance, while building AI-ready foundations and reusable data products for Power BI, APIs, and AI use cases. This hands-on senior role balances strategy with delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics leadership.
• Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience including OneLake, Lakehouse, and Power BI.
• Experience designing cloud data platforms for reporting, analytics, APIs, or modern applications.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and technical direction for Microsoft Fabric platform.
• Define reusable data ingestion, transformation, Lakehouse and Warehouse patterns, data modeling, semantic models, security, and governance.
• Ensure trusted data and business logic can be reused across Power BI, APIs, and AI solutions.
• Build an AI-ready data foundation with quality, metadata, lineage, context, and controls.
• Guide modernization of legacy data platforms into Microsoft Fabric while balancing speed, reliability, performance and cost.
• Partner with data, application, security, architecture, and business teams from solution design through production.
• Mentor engineers, review key designs, and communicate decisions clearly to technical teams and senior leaders.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Data Architecture

Data Modeling

Lakehouse

Security & Governance

Leadership

Cloud Data Platform

Tools

OneLake

Lakehouse

Warehouse

Spark

APIs

Semantic models

Job description

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value to our stakeholders. In 2025, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in sales and has approximately 16,100 employees who serve customers in 119 countries/territories. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.

What will you do as a Principal Enterprise Data Architect, Microsoft Fabric at Sealed Air?

We are modernizing how data is delivered across the enterprise, with Microsoft Fabric serving as the foundation for analytics, digital products, and AI. We are looking for a Principal Enterprise Data Architect to lead that architecture and help turn the strategy into working solutions. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can set direction, make pragmatic decisions, and stay engaged through delivery.

You will help build trusted, reusable data products that support Power BI, business applications, and emerging AI use cases. The right candidate combines strong Microsoft Fabric expertise with sound enterprise architecture judgment and the ability to lead through influence across global teams.

Why do we need you?

• Set the architecture and technical direction for our Microsoft Fabric platform.
• Define practical, reusable patterns for data ingestion, transformation, Lakehouse and Warehouse design, data modeling, semantic models, security, and governance.
• Ensure trusted data and business logic can be reused across Power BI, React-based applications, APIs, and AI solutions.
• Build an AI-ready data foundation with the quality, metadata, lineage, context, and controls needed for generative AI and machine learning use cases.
• Guide the modernization of legacy data platforms into Microsoft Fabric while balancing delivery speed, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Partner with data, application, security, architecture, and business teams from solution design through production.
• Mentor engineers, review key designs, and communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs clearly to technical teams and senior leaders.

What do you need to succeed?

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics, with experience leading complex enterprise solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse or Warehouse, pipelines, Spark, Power BI, and semantic models.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, medallion architecture, enterprise integration, metadata, lineage, security, and governance.
• Experience designing cloud data platforms that serve reporting, analytics, APIs, or modern applications.
• Working knowledge of how enterprise data supports generative AI and machine learning, including secure access, grounding, and retrieval.
• Ability to move between strategy and implementation and communicate effectively with engineers, business partners, and senior leaders.c10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics, with experience leading complex enterprise solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, or Fabric Data Science.
• Experience supporting React or other modern applications through APIs or embedded analytics.
• Experience integrating or modernizing data from SAP, Salesforce, or other large enterprise platforms.
• Relevant Microsoft Fabric, Azure architecture, data engineering, or AI certification.

Requisition id: 55324

Relocation: Yes

Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

• Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at [e-mail].

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