Senior Data Architect – Banking Data Platform Lead

ValueMomentum; Billings (MT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ValueMomentum is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to shape end-to-end architecture on Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Platform, and AI services. You will lead design across data engineering, data science, BI and AI workloads, and oversee governance, security, and regulatory compliance.

The role requires deep Banking & Financial Services analytics experience, hands-on work with Fabric components and Azure data tools, plus strong stakeholder management and leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Banking & Financial Services data domains.
• 12–16 years of overall IT experience with hands-on data platform work.
• Experience with Data Lakes/Lakehouse and Data Warehouses, BI and analytics.
• Hands-on Azure data services: ADF, Databricks, dbt; Microsoft Fabric suite.
• Proven experience with data governance, security, and MDM.
• Ability to lead architecture workshops with business and IT stakeholders.
• Experience in AI solution delivery and large-scale data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Platform.
• Lead solution design across Data Engineering, Data Science, BI and AI workloads.
• Architect Fabric components such as OneLake, Data Factory, Lakehouse, Warehouse.
• Ensure banking regulatory compliance, security, governance and risk controls.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and align tech to business objectives.
• Provide architecture governance throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Skills

Banking & Financial Services data

12–16 years IT experience

Data governance

Data security & privacy

Master Data Management

Data architecture patterns

DataOps & CI/CD

Agile delivery

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Fabric OneLake

Fabric Pipelines

Fabric Notebooks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

dbt

Job description

ValueMomentum is seeking an experienced Senior Data Platform Architect to shape end-to-end architecture on Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Platform, and AI services. You will lead design across data engineering, data science, BI and AI workloads, and oversee governance, security, and regulatory compliance.

The role requires deep Banking & Financial Services analytics experience, hands-on work with Fabric components and Azure data tools, plus strong stakeholder management and leadership capabilities.