Senior Microsoft Fabric Architect for Enterprise Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Udemy access

Company-paid certifications

Basic Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Ciklum is hiring an Enterprise Fabric Architect to lead architecture strategy, onboarding standards, and governance for a large-scale Microsoft Fabric program in the US. You will define scalable patterns for data acquisition into Fabric layers and enable downstream analytics, AI initiatives, and reporting.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud data platforms, governance, and platform operationalization, with influence across multiple squads and domains. Join a One Team culture at Ciklum.

Qualifications

• Strategic Leadership: proven experience designing and leading enterprise-scale Cloud Data Platforms and Data Engineering architectures.
• Architectural Mastery: expert knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, modern Lakehouse architectures, and Medallion Architecture principles.
• Operational Excellence: scalable onboarding frameworks, metadata/lineage, and robust operational controls.
• Executive Communication: strong stakeholder management for executive-level discussions.
• Platforms: Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse), Azure Synapse, Snowflake, Databricks.
• Data Engineering: Delta Lake, Spark, dbt, and Azure Data Factory.
• Governance & DevOps: Microsoft Purview, Metadata frameworks, CI/CD, DataOps practices.
• Modeling: Power BI Semantic Models.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide MS Fabric strategy and onboarding standards.
• Drive architecture governance across Medallion layers with reusable ingestion patterns.
• Lead technical reviews for scalability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• Architect Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, and semantic enablement layers for analytics.
• Standardize ingestion pipelines and reusable data products for stability.
• Operationalize master data onboarding and source system integration.
• Establish governance for metadata and lineage with guardrails.
• Define observability and monitoring standards for data quality and security.
• Mentor Architects, Engineers, and Data Modelers.

Skills

Enterprise Data Architecture

Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineering

Medallion Architecture

Platform Governance

Executive Communication

Stakeholder Management

Cloud Data Platforms

Azure Synapse

Snowflake

Databricks

Delta Lake

dbt

Power BI

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Information Technology

Computer Science

Tools

Azure Synapse

Snowflake

Databricks

Power BI

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Ciklum is hiring an Enterprise Fabric Architect to lead architecture strategy, onboarding standards, and governance for a large-scale Microsoft Fabric program in the US. You will define scalable patterns for data acquisition into Fabric layers and enable downstream analytics, AI initiatives, and reporting.

The role requires deep expertise in cloud data platforms, governance, and platform operationalization, with influence across multiple squads and domains. Join a One Team culture at Ciklum.