Job Description
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Role: AZURE Data Architect
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Cloud Environment: AZURE
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Location: Manhattan, NY (Hybrid 3 days a week to office)
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Role Summary: Defines and governs the data architecture for the engagement onsite, ensuring scalable, secure and well-modeled data platforms that support analytics and AI use cases.
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Key Responsibilities
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• Design enterprise data architecture, including data models, pipelines, storage and integration patterns
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• Define data standards, governance, lineage and quality practices
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• Evaluate and select data platform technologies in line with client strategy
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• Partner with AI Architect and Data Engineers to enable ML and AI workloads
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• Review designs and code for performance, security and scalability
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• Document architecture decisions and present to technical and business stakeholders
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• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements
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• Guide and mentor the offshore data team
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Required Qualifications
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• 10+ years in data architecture, engineering, or analytics
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• Deep expertise in data modeling (relational, dimensional, lakehouse)
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• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP) and tools such as Databricks, Snowflake or Synapse
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• Strong SQL and familiarity with Python
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• Experience with data governance, MDM, and data quality frameworks
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• Excellent communication with technical and business audiences
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• Cloud architect or data certification preferred.
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Key Skills: Data modeling | Cloud data platforms | ETL / ELT design | Data governance | SQL / Python | Solution architecture
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