Senior Data Architect - Microsoft Fabric/Azure

Senior Data Architect - Microsoft Fabric/Azure

Rate: £600-£800 (DOE) per day - Inside IR35
Length: 6-month initial contract
Location: London - Hybrid, 2-3 days per week in the office
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Data Architect to join a major global organisation as it develops a new enterprise data platform and modernises its wider data architecture.

This is a senior role which requires you to be very much hands-on. You will need to work closely with data engineers, developers and third-party delivery teams, challenge technical decisions where necessary and help ensure the new platform is actually delivered.

The new data environment is being built around Microsoft Fabric and Azure, using a Medallion architecture, alongside Master Data Management, enterprise data modelling, data governance, semantic data and increased use of AI and automation.
Essential experience for the Senior Data Architect role:

• Strong recent experience as a Senior Data Architect/Lead Data Architect/Data Platform Architect.
• Deep practical experience of Microsoft Azure data technologies.
• Significant experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• Proven experience designing or delivering Medallion architectures.
• Experience with MDM/Master Data Management, preferably including golden-record concepts.
• Experience delivering within a large, complex enterprise or global organisation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data governance and data-quality principles.
• Technically strong enough to work directly with developers and data engineers and challenge their approach where required.

Key responsibilities:

• Help define and deliver the organisation's future enterprise data architecture.
• Design and develop modern data architecture using Microsoft Fabric and Azure.
• Work with Medallion architecture - Bronze, Silver and Gold layers.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership to data engineers and developers.
• Review and challenge technical designs and work with third-party implementation partners and ensure delivery remains technically aligned.
• Support the introduction and development of Master Data Management and golden records.
• Identify opportunities to use AI and automation within the data platform and wider data architecture.
• Work with senior technology and business stakeholders.

Experience of areas such as OneLake, Lakehouse, Fabric Warehouse, Data Factory/Data Pipelines, semantic models, Power BI, AI agents or AI-enabled data platforms would be particularly useful.

This is a role for someone who combines senior architecture capability with genuine technical delivery experience - someone who can define the architecture but is equally comfortable getting involved with the teams responsible for making it work.

The initial contract is expected to be 6 months, with potential extension. There may also be the opportunity to move into a permanent position in the future for candidates who are interested, although this is not a requirement.
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