Data Architect – FDE| H1B

Job Title: Data Architect – FDE
Client: Virtusa
Location: Hartford, CT / Minneapolis, MN – Onsite
Experience: 12+ Years
Employment Type: Contract
Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure
Visa: H1B – C2C
Rate: $70/hr

• Work directly with business and technical stakeholders to understand complex data and technology problems.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable architecture and engineering solutions.
• Understand existing data ecosystems, applications, integrations, data flows, and constraints.
• Define target-state architectures for enterprise data solutions.
• Architect scalable solutions using Azure Databricks, ADLS, ADF, Microsoft Fabric/Synapse, and related Azure technologies.
• Define Lakehouse, Delta Lake, batch, streaming, and analytical architecture patterns.
• Remain hands-on with Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and data engineering.
• Develop or guide rapid prototypes to validate architecture decisions.
• Define ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, API, and integration patterns.
• Architect solutions spanning data platforms, APIs, applications, analytics, and AI/ML consumers.
• Define logical and physical data models.
• Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, security, governance, and observability.
• Design for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and cost optimization.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot complex cross-platform technical issues.
• Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance to Data Engineers and FDE teams.
• Partner with AI/ML, DevOps, security, product, and application engineering teams.
• Own technical outcomes from problem discovery through production implementation.

• 10+ years of progressive Data Engineering/Data Architecture experience.
• Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks.
• Strong Python and PySpark skills.
• Advanced SQL.
• ADLS Gen2.
• Azure Data Factory (ADF).
• Lakehouse and Delta Lake architecture.
• Data modeling.
• ETL/ELT and distributed data processing.
• API and enterprise integration architecture.
• CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
• Data security, governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
• Experience architecting enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Strong stakeholder-facing communication and technical leadership.
• Ability to move between architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem solving.

• Microsoft Fabric.
• Azure Synapse.
• Unity Catalog.
• Event Hubs/Kafka.
• AKS/Kubernetes.
• Terraform/IaC.
• Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry exposure.
• Healthcare data/platform experience.
• Consulting, customer-facing engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering experience.

• Rate: $70/hr C2C.
• Candidate must be comfortable working onsite in Hartford, CT or Minneapolis, MN.
• Please prioritize candidates who are hands-on architects and can contribute directly to engineering and implementation.
• Purely conceptual/enterprise architecture profiles without strong hands-on Azure data engineering experience will not be a good fit.
• Strong experience with Azure Databricks, Python, PySpark, SQL, ADLS Gen2, ADF, Lakehouse, and Delta Lake is required.
• Please ensure candidates closely match the technical requirements before submission.