Job Description
About the Role
Our client seeks a strategic and forward-thinking Microsoft Fabric Data Architect with proven experience designing and governing enterprise-wide data and analytics ecosystems. This role requires strong leadership capability in defining and executing target-state architectures across OneLake, Lakehouse and Warehouse environments, orchestration frameworks, semantic models, and real-time analytics solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Microsoft Fabric reference architecture (OneLake, Lakehouse/Warehouse, pipelines, notebooks, semantic models).
- Select and implement optimal data patterns (ETL/ELT, batch/streaming, Direct Lake vs Import/DirectQuery).
- Establish and enforce data modelling standards, semantic models, and metric definitions.
- Design governance frameworks, workspace strategies, and security models (RBAC, RLS/OLS, PII handling).
- Plan platform capacity, optimise workloads, and improve performance and cost efficiency.
- Conduct architecture reviews, approve designs, and ensure solution alignment with business goals.
- Mentor engineers and analysts, promoting reusable templates, reference patterns, and best practices.
- Facilitate cross-team alignment on data quality, metric definitions, and delivery standards.
- Produce documentation, CI/CD pipelines, operational runbooks, and incident management resources.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, semantic models, pipelines/dataflows, Spark)
- Experience in Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Ms Fabric
- Strong SQL and advanced data modelling skills
- Proven experience in enterprise governance, RLS/OLS, and secure-by-design architectures
- CI/CD and Git-based deployment experience
- Excellent documentation and stakeholder communication skills
- 12+ years in data/BI/analytics, with 2-5+ years in an architecture or lead role
- Experience delivering enterprise data platforms or cloud migrations
Qualifications
No qualifications mentioned.
Salary & Benefits
Cost to company of up to R1.6 mil per annum, negotiable on experience and ability.
The Reference Number
NG61100
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