Remote Enterprise Data Architect – Azure & Fabric

Accel4 Inc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accel4 Inc is seeking a Technical Architect – Enterprise Data to define, govern, and deliver scalable data and integration architectures across Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and core business systems for a major customer.

You will lead architectural decision making, align with standards, and guide engineering toward secure, high-performance solutions while collaborating with business, data, and security teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise solution architecture, data engineering, and software development.
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, or related field.
• Proven experience designing end-to-end integrations, data platforms, and automation for large enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Pipelines, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem.
• Deep experience with Power BI semantic models, datasets, dashboards, and reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in DAX, Power Query, SQL, Python, and PySpark.
• Demonstrated experience architecting ETL/ELT pipelines integrating diverse data sources into Azure Data Lake and EDW.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, normalization, metadata management, and enterprise data security.
• Exposure to AI/ML, Copilot, GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI API integration.
• Familiarity with SDLC, software quality practices, Jira, Git, and CI/CD.
• Experience with SaaS/Cloud ERP or CRM systems (NetSuite, Salesforce, SAP S/4HANA).
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data architecture across Microsoft Fabric, Data Lake, EDW, and analytics platforms.
• Design integration patterns for ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
• Create architectural flows, reference models, and long-term platform roadmaps.
• Architect ETL/ELT pipelines that integrate diverse data sources into Azure Data Lake and EDW.
• Design continuity and disaster recovery across ERP, CRM, Data Lake, Fabric, and analytics systems so business processes remain functional during partial outages.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and source system teams to understand data requirements.
• Translate business needs into technical specifications and architectural roadmaps.
• Review user stories and provide architectural guidance to development teams.
• Support QA and functional teams in defining testing strategies for new and existing features.
• Ensure delivered solutions align with business needs and architectural intent.
• Conduct root cause analysis for data issues and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Manage platform reliability, data quality, and governance processes.
• Drive platform cost optimization, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure

Data governance

RBAC

Stakeholder mgmt

ETL/ELT design

Cloud architecture

SQL

Python

Power BI

CI/CD

Jira

Git

Microsoft Fabric

Data Lake

EDW

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / MIS

Tools

Jira

Git

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Lake

EDW

Power BI

SQL Server

Python

Job description

Accel4 Inc is seeking a Technical Architect – Enterprise Data to define, govern, and deliver scalable data and integration architectures across Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and core business systems for a major customer.

You will lead architectural decision making, align with standards, and guide engineering toward secure, high-performance solutions while collaborating with business, data, and security teams.