Remote Principal Data Architect: Azure & Databricks

Blueflag-LLP; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous annual leave

Group health plan

401(k) with company match

Training and development

Job summary

BlueFlag is hiring a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture for a premier data and AI platform serving the Department of Veterans Affairs. This remote, customer-facing role collaborates with VA leaders to design scalable architectures on Azure, Databricks, and Unity Catalog.

You will guide senior data engineers, drive architectural decisions, and help move the platform to Azure Commercial while ensuring HIPAA and security requirements are met, enabling trusted reporting, analytics,

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field.
• US citizenship and eligibility for public trust clearance are required.
• Extensive experience in cloud data engineering and data warehousing on Azure is expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture discussions with customers daily and translate needs into designs.
• Mentor senior data engineers through design reviews and hands-on problem solving.
• Set standards for ingestion, storage, modeling, and serving with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, and Delta Lake.
• Architect the platform's move to Azure Commercial with Databricks and Unity Catalog governance.
• Design metadata-driven frameworks moving thousands of tables through batch, CDC, and streaming patterns.
• Support reporting and ML workloads via Synapse, Databricks SQL, and Power BI.

Skills

SQL

Python (PySpark)

Leadership

Customer-facing

Architecture design

Mentoring

Data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Delta Lake

ADLS Gen2

Power BI

Unity Catalog

Job description

BlueFlag is hiring a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture for a premier data and AI platform serving the Department of Veterans Affairs. This remote, customer-facing role collaborates with VA leaders to design scalable architectures on Azure, Databricks, and Unity Catalog.

You will guide senior data engineers, drive architectural decisions, and help move the platform to Azure Commercial while ensuring HIPAA and security requirements are met, enabling trusted reporting, analytics,