Data Architect Job - United States (VDart)Description
Responsibilities:
- Architect and own enterprise-scale Azure Databricks Lakehouse solutions using Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
- Design scalable data ingestion frameworks using Fivetran, REST APIs, SFTP, CDC, and incremental loading strategies.
- Develop canonical, dimensional, and semantic data models optimized for enterprise analytics.
- Establish Power BI semantic modeling standards, including datasets, DAX measures, calculation groups, and composite models.
- Define and govern enterprise KPIs, certified datasets, and metric versioning standards.
- Implement enterprise-wide data governance frameworks covering data quality, metadata, lineage, stewardship, and lifecycle management.
- Configure and manage Unity Catalog for centralized metadata, RBAC, row-level security, auditing, and data lineage.
- Define automated data quality validations, reconciliation rules, observability metrics, and monitoring processes.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks, jobs, and Power BI deployments across development environments.
- Optimize platform performance through partitioning, clustering, caching, and query optimization techniques.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, data classification, retention, and regulatory standards.
- Review and approve solution architectures, data models, and transformation logic developed by engineering teams.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to standardize KPIs, governance policies, and data quality initiatives.
- Mentor data engineers, analysts, and technical teams on architecture, governance, modeling, and best practices.
- Embed governance into the analytics platform through automated controls, secure access patterns, and enterprise data standards
Education
Bachelor's degree