Senior Data Architect - Microsoft Fabric Platform Lead

Keste; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Keste is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale Fabric-based data platforms across OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Data Factory. You will govern data standards, architecture, and security while delivering AI-ready analytics solutions.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep Fabric expertise and cloud strategy alignment. The ideal candidate combines architecture vision with hands-on implementation, mentoring teams, guiding governance, and partnering

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture or enterprise analytics.
• Proven Azure data platform design experience.
• Hands-on Microsoft Fabric implementation expertise.
• Deep knowledge of OneLake, Fabric Lakehouse and related patterns.
• Strong governance, metadata and security focus.
• Advanced SQL and Python/PySpark development skills.
• Power BI, DAX, data modeling and semantic modeling experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-scale Fabric-based architecture and platform design.
• Define landing zones, governance, security, and workload boundaries.
• Architect ingestion, transformation, and semantic model patterns.
• Drive end-to-end data governance, lineage and compliance.
• Guide AI/LLM integration and MLOps within Fabric environments.
• Mentor engineers, analysts, BI developers, and solution architects.

Skills

10+ years in data architecture

Azure data platforms

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake & Fabric Lakehouse

Data governance

SQL & Python & PySpark

Power BI & DAX

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Terraform

Bicep

YAML

Job description

Keste is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale Fabric-based data platforms across OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Data Factory. You will govern data standards, architecture, and security while delivering AI-ready analytics solutions.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep Fabric expertise and cloud strategy alignment. The ideal candidate combines architecture vision with hands-on implementation, mentoring teams, guiding governance, and partnering