Senior Data & AI Architect - Client-Facing Azure Lakehouse

Lantern; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lantern is seeking a hands-on, client-facing Senior Consultant, Data & AI to design and deliver modern data, analytics, and AI solutions across Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure.

You will work directly with client stakeholders and Lantern delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, governed, and scalable solutions that support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering data, analytics, or AI solutions.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python or PySpark.
• Experience with Azure Databricks, Fabric, or Power BI.
• Experience with data governance, security, quality, metadata, lineage, observability.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery sessions, gather requirements, and translate business needs into practical solution designs and delivery plans.
• Design, build, test, and deploy lakehouse, warehouse, batch, streaming, and real-time data solutions using Databricks, Fabric, Power BI, and Azure.
• Develop data pipelines, transformations, models, semantic layers, dashboards, notebooks, and reusable technical components.
• Apply data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, observability, security, and cost-management practices throughout delivery.
• Implement CI/CD, DevOps, DataOps, source-control, testing, and deployment patterns for modern data platforms.
• Own assigned workstreams, communicate progress and risks, troubleshoot issues, and help deliver high-quality outcomes on time.
• Contribute to estimates, proposals, demonstrations, accelerators, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor consultants and engineers, participate in peer reviews, and collaborate with architects and project leaders on technical decisions.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

SQL

Python / PySpark

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Data governance

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Git

Job description

Lantern is seeking a hands-on, client-facing Senior Consultant, Data & AI to design and deliver modern data, analytics, and AI solutions across Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure.

You will work directly with client stakeholders and Lantern delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, governed, and scalable solutions that support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications.