Senior Cloud Data Architect - AI-Ready, Azure Fabric

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Harper (OR); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chicago seeks a Senior Data Architect to define and govern the organization’s data strategy, architecture roadmap, and cloud modernization efforts. You will lead enterprise data platforms across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Power BI to support reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor data engineers, and collaborate with executives to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions while ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in data architecture or related discipline.
• Master's degree and Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer certification are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data architecture strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead design and optimization of cloud data platforms using Microsoft Fabric and Azure tools.
• Architect data warehouse, lakehouse, data mesh, and data integration solutions.
• Establish governance, data quality, metadata management, data lineage, security, and compliance.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Power BI

SQL

Python

Spark

ETL/ELT

DataOps

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Microsoft Certified Fabric Data Engineer

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

OneLake

Job description

The University of Chicago seeks a Senior Data Architect to define and govern the organization’s data strategy, architecture roadmap, and cloud modernization efforts. You will lead enterprise data platforms across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Power BI to support reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor data engineers, and collaborate with executives to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions while ensuring