Principal Data Architect: AI-Ready Enterprise Platform Lead

Wolters Kluwer; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer seeks an experienced Data Architect to define, govern, and evolve the enterprise data architecture supporting analytics, reporting, operational intelligence, and AI. You will provide architectural leadership across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Data Warehouses, Lakehouses, and Fabric Data Factory, driving SD Development and governance across platforms.

The role focuses on modernizing data platforms, establishing standards, and enabling AI-ready data foundations while mentoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics.
• 3+ years in a senior architecture or technical leadership role.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud data platforms and modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise data architecture roadmap.
• Establish target-state architectures for analytics, reporting, AI, and operational workloads.
• Lead Microsoft Fabric architecture and governance including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Fabric Data Factory, semantic models, and security.
• Define standards for dimensional modeling, Data Vault, fact and dimension design, and slowly changing dimensions.
• Establish ETL/ELT architecture standards across Azure Data Factory, Fabric Data Factory, SSIS, and Pentaho.
• Create governance frameworks for data quality, lineage, metadata, security, privacy, and compliance.
• Define AI-ready data architecture patterns and support AI, machine learning, and generative AI initiatives.
• Conduct architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and establish reference architectures.
• Promote Specification-Driven Development and architecture-first practices.

Skills

8+ years data architecture experience

3+ years senior architecture/lead

Enterprise architecture governance

Education

Bachelor degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Fabric Data Factory

SQL Server

Azure Data Lake Storage

OneLake

Job description

Wolters Kluwer seeks an experienced Data Architect to define, govern, and evolve the enterprise data architecture supporting analytics, reporting, operational intelligence, and AI. You will provide architectural leadership across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Data Warehouses, Lakehouses, and Fabric Data Factory, driving SD Development and governance across platforms.

The role focuses on modernizing data platforms, establishing standards, and enabling AI-ready data foundations while mentoring