Lead Data Platform Architect, Azure & Databricks

Stryker Group; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Group is seeking a Principal Architect for EDT Data Platform Engineering to translate enterprise data architecture into scalable Azure and Databricks solutions. You will partner with delivery teams, business representatives, and data stewards to build governed data pipelines, analytics-ready models, and reusable automation.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and data quality frameworks, design Gold-layer models, and align with Power BI and Fabric.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field and 8+ years data engineering experience.
• Hands-on delivery on Azure and Databricks Lakehouse platforms.
• Experience with data governance, data quality frameworks, and metadata design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ingestion frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Spark.
• Implement Bronze-to-Silver transformations with data quality checks.
• Optimize batch and streaming pipelines for performance and cost.
• Own CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and automate onboarding.
• Maintain IaC and automation using Terraform and PowerShell; troubleshoot.
• Design Gold-layer data models including star and snowflake schemas.
• Align models with enterprise semantic layer in Power BI and Fabric.
• Manage model changes with impact analysis and documentation.
• Implement Unity Catalog standards and role-based access controls.
• Translate high-level architecture into low-level designs and templates.

Skills

Data engineering

Azure Databricks

PySpark

SQL

CI/CD

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent

Master's degree in MIS / Azure analytics certification or MBA

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure SQL

Delta Live Tables

Delta Lake

Spark

Unity Catalog

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Stryker Group is seeking a Principal Architect for EDT Data Platform Engineering to translate enterprise data architecture into scalable Azure and Databricks solutions. You will partner with delivery teams, business representatives, and data stewards to build governed data pipelines, analytics-ready models, and reusable automation.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and data quality frameworks, design Gold-layer models, and align with Power BI and Fabric.