Vaco is on the search for a global client as they transform their Data Engineering and BI platform to match business needs. In this role,as the Data Platform Architect, your primary responsibility will be for designing, building, and maintaining robust data platforms and solutions on Azure. You will lead architectural decisions, establish governance standards, and collaborate across teams to ensure seamless data flows and scalable solutions. Your work will focus on optimizing data delivery and ensuring the architecture aligns with business objectives, supporting new initiatives, and enhancing existing data capabilities. If you are interested in learning more please reach out to our Vaco Arizona team today!
Core Responsibilities:
- Working with Azure Cloud data platforms, providing subject matter expertise in designing, architecting and maintaining these solutions
- Driving the adoption and usage of Azure Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI in the data platform
- Performing architectural assessments and define solutions to produce detailed design documents addressing complex data needs
- Working with the team to define and drive platform governance initiatives
- Contributing and collaborating with other architects within the Enterprise Architecture team to get required approval from Architecture Review Board for new initiatives
- Providing technical direction on Azure platform services, including best practices for system configurations, integration patterns, and leveraging platform features to meet business requirements.
- Providing platform standards to support the broader team of Data Engineering and Data Science Teams (establishing standards & best practices, efficient usage of Azure service, efficient ETL design patterns)
- Mentoring of Data Engineering and Data Science teams on, for example, leveraging Azure platform capabilities, such as configuring SPNs for system connections, enabling monitoring/logging for pipelines, and implementing security protocols
- Providing technical support for platform performance tuning and optimization activities
- Participating in the creation and maintenance of technical roadmaps
- Participating in PoCs and evaluations of new technologies to identify opportunities for improving data platform capabilities and integration
- Working with Information Security Architect to develop and implement application or solution information security architectures
- Collaborating with Information Security teams to design and implement security strategies, including identity management, access control, and data encryption within the Azure platform.
- Collaborating with product owners, business analysts, and developers to translate business requirements into scalable platform solutions.
- Defining and implementing monitoring frameworks for data pipelines and platform services to ensure high availability and proactive issue resolution.
- Driving automation of platform deployments using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform or Azure DevOps.
Required Skills and Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience in designing & architecting Data & Analytics solutions, with a focus on Azure-based platforms and enterprise-scale systems
- Expert understanding of relational databases, Data Warehouse & Data Lake modeling techniques & concepts, ETL/ELT processing patterns, and Big Data technologies
- Practical experience in designing systems to handle large data volumes
- Practical experience in designing systems for large-scale data processing with a focus on Azure performance optimization and cost management.
- Working experience in designing and architecting solutions that leverage Databricks and Snowflake
- Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud services (Azure Synapse/SQL Server, ADF or close equivalents)
- Working experience with Microsoft Power BI (Power BI Platform, AAS/Tabular) integration with Azure-based Platforms.
- Working knowledge of Python, PySpark, SQL & T-SQL
- Working experience in designing and architecting solutions that comply with data security industry standards and regulations, including RBAC, data encryption (GDPR, PCI, etc.), and monitoring
- Microsoft Azure Certification required
Soft Skills:
- Ability to understand complex business requirements and translate those into effective technical solutions, strategic and tactical directions
- Ability to mentor and provide leadership to team members on Azure platform usage, including best practices for architecture, cost optimization, and performance tuning.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with IT teams and business stakeholders, including facilitating discussions between technical and business staff
- Agile mindset and willingness to learn new tools
- Experience working in agile methodologies
- Git version control
- Fluent English (all project communication in English)
Nice to have:
- Snowflake and Databricks certification
- Experience in managing Apache Airflow
- Experience with CI/CD tools (preferably GitHub and Azure DevOps)
- Experience in Jira and Confluence
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law. Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com . Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal. By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
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Vaco
$70.00 - $80.00 / hr
Jan 30, 2025