Remote Principal Data Architect: Azure & Databricks

Blueflag-LLP; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plans

401(k) with company match

Life insurance & AD&D

Generous paid holidays

Ongoing training and development

Job summary

BlueFlag-LLP is seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture for a premier Azure-based data and AI platform supporting VA health and benefits analytics. This remote role is customer-facing daily, guiding senior engineers and VA leaders through architecture decisions.

You will define ingestion, storage, and modeling standards using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Databricks, and oversee the move to Azure Commercial with Unity Catalog governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field.
• 12+ years in data engineering and data architecture; 5+ years as lead/principal architect.
• Experience with Azure data platform and Databricks.
• Strong customer-facing and architecture-design skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Leadership

Customer-facing

SQL

Python PySpark

Mentorship

Azure data

Data architecture

Compliance HIPAA/NIST/FISMA

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Delta Lake

ADLS Gen2

Unity Catalog

Databricks SQL

Power BI

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

BlueFlag-LLP is seeking a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture for a premier Azure-based data and AI platform supporting VA health and benefits analytics. This remote role is customer-facing daily, guiding senior engineers and VA leaders through architecture decisions.

You will define ingestion, storage, and modeling standards using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Databricks, and oversee the move to Azure Commercial with Unity Catalog governance.