Remote Principal Data Architect - Azure Data & AI Platform

BlueFlag LLC; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueFlag LLC is seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture for a premier Azure-based AI platform for the VA. This remote, customer-facing role guides senior data engineers and VA leaders on architecture decisions, tooling, and data governance, while driving the platform’s move to Azure Commercial with Databricks and Unity Catalog.

Ideal candidates are hands-on engineers who later led teams and client-facing engagements, with a strong track record in data warehousing, lakehouse

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data engineering and data architecture; hands-on start, then leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture discussions with VA stakeholders and turn needs into clear designs.
• Mentor senior data engineers through design reviews and problem solving.
• Set architecture and standards for ingestion, storage, modeling, and serving on Azure services.
• Architect platform migration to Azure Commercial with Databricks and Unity Catalog.
• Design metadata-driven frameworks for thousands of tables across batch, CDC, and streaming.
• Support reporting and ML workloads via Synapse, Databricks SQL, and Power BI.

Skills

Leadership

SQL

Python

PySpark

Azure

Databricks

CDC

Streaming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Delta Lake

ADLS Gen2

Unity Catalog

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Job description

BlueFlag LLC is seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture for a premier Azure-based AI platform for the VA. This remote, customer-facing role guides senior data engineers and VA leaders on architecture decisions, tooling, and data governance, while driving the platform’s move to Azure Commercial with Databricks and Unity Catalog.

Ideal candidates are hands-on engineers who later led teams and client-facing engagements, with a strong track record in data warehousing, lakehouse