Senior Data Architect: Modernization & Platform Leadership

Ledgent Technology; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ledgent Technology seeks a Senior Data Engineer/Data Architect to assess, modernize, and optimize an enterprise data platform supporting critical analytics initiatives. You will shape target cloud architectures, governance, and data integration strategies while mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering and architectural leadership, with focus on Azure-based data platforms, data lakehouse, and Power BI reporting to enable scalable, secure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, BI Engineering, or Enterprise Data Platforms.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, ADLS Gen2, Power BI, Microsoft Purview, and Azure data services.
• Expertise in enterprise data lake, lakehouse, and data warehouse architectures.
• Advanced SQL development and performance tuning experience.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, cataloging, and data quality controls.
• Experience leading architecture assessments, roadmap planning, and modernization initiatives.
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers, analysts, and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess and evaluate existing enterprise data lake architecture, including ingestion, transformation, storage, security, lineage, and reporting layers.
• Develop target-state architecture recommendations and modernization roadmaps.
• Design scalable solutions leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, OneLake, and Power BI.
• Lead architectural reviews and present recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Build reliable and scalable data ingestion and transformation processes.
• Support lakehouse, data warehouse, and semantic modeling initiatives.
• Establish and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Implement metadata management, data cataloging, lineage, and business glossary standards.
• Define and enforce data quality controls, validation procedures, and monitoring processes.
• Support Power BI semantic models, reporting architectures, and self-service analytics initiatives.
• Collaborate with analysts and business teams to deliver trusted data solutions.
• Promote best practices across development, testing, deployment, and support processes.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder collaboration

SQL optimization

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/IT or related field

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

OneLake

Power BI

Microsoft Purview

Azure Data Services

Job description

Ledgent Technology seeks a Senior Data Engineer/Data Architect to assess, modernize, and optimize an enterprise data platform supporting critical analytics initiatives. You will shape target cloud architectures, governance, and data integration strategies while mentoring engineers and collaborating with stakeholders.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering and architectural leadership, with focus on Azure-based data platforms, data lakehouse, and Power BI reporting to enable scalable, secure