Senior Data & AI Platform Architect (Snowflake/Azure)

Paladin Consulting; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Paladin Consulting seeks a hands-on Sr. Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for data, analytics, and AI. You will design enterprise data platforms, lakehouse architectures, and AI/ML capabilities while partnering with engineering, data science, and business teams.

The role requires deep Snowflake, Fabric or Synapse expertise, Power BI modeling, and modern ETL/ELT pipeline design. You will guide governance and security across complex data landscapes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics, or related tech disciplines.
• 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake architecture and engineering experience — REQUIRED.
• Strong AI/ML architecture experience, including AI/ML data infrastructure, RAG, vector stores, embeddings, or MLOps.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse Analytics.
• Enterprise-scale data lakehouse architecture and data product experience.
• Strong Power BI architecture and semantic modeling experience.
• Experience designing modern ETL/ELT data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Fabric Data Factory, or dbt.
• Experience with data governance, security, data quality, metadata, lineage, and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for data, analytics, and AI platforms.
• Lead architecture across Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and Power BI.
• Design scalable lakehouse, data product, ingestion, and integration architectures.
• Define architecture for AI/ML workloads, including RAG, vector stores, embeddings, feature engineering, and MLOps.
• Establish architectural standards, governance, security, and best practices.
• Partner with engineering, data science, infrastructure, application development, and business teams.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews, and mentorship.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

Data lakehouse architecture

Power BI architecture

ETL/ELT pipelines

RAG / vector stores

MLOps

Leadership & reviews

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse Analytics

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Fabric Data Factory

Power BI

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Purview

Monte Carlo

Great Expectations

Job description

Paladin Consulting seeks a hands-on Sr. Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for data, analytics, and AI. You will design enterprise data platforms, lakehouse architectures, and AI/ML capabilities while partnering with engineering, data science, and business teams.

The role requires deep Snowflake, Fabric or Synapse expertise, Power BI modeling, and modern ETL/ELT pipeline design. You will guide governance and security across complex data landscapes.