Data Platform Architect

isolved•Nixa, MO

14h

About The Position

The Principal Cloud Solutions Architect is a senior technical and people leader responsible for defining the enterprise cloud, platform, and data architecture strategy on Microsoft Azure. This role provides architectural vision, technical governance, and hands‑on guidance while leading a team of cloud architects and engineers. The Principal Architect drives cloud modernization, reliability, and data platform excellence, ensuring solutions align with business strategy, scalability, security, and operational maturity.

Requirements

Senior or staff-level experience as a data platform architect or principal engineer, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end platform architecture
10+ years of experience
Proven track record of defining and driving a data platform architectural roadmap, not just executing on one
Experience designing self-serve data platform capabilities and data product patterns for domain-oriented consumption
Deep practical knowledge of Azure networking: VNet injection, private endpoints, NSG/UDR configuration, Private Link, and hub-spoke topology in a data platform context
Proven hands-on experience with Databricks workspace administration: Unity Catalog, service principals, cluster policies, ACLs, and secrets management
Strong identity and access management skills: Azure Entra ID, service principal lifecycle, managed identities, and OAuth M2M configuration
Hands-on Terraform experience for provisioning and managing Databricks workspaces and Azure resources
Experience configuring ADLS Gen2, external locations, and storage credentials for Databricks
Familiarity with Fivetran or equivalent managed ingestion tooling and incremental ingestion patterns
Working familiarity with dbt project structure and medallion architecture sufficient to support and collaborate with analytics engineering teams (awareness, not deep expertise)
Proven track record of designing secure, governed data solutions in collaboration with security and compliance teams
Excellent communication skills - able to present architectural decisions to both technical teams and business stakeholder
Azure
Microsoft Architecture
C#
SQL
Unit Testing
.NET
.NET/ASP.NET Core Web API
JavaScript
SOLID Principles

Nice To Haves

Knockout
Azure Cosmos DB or NoSQL database
Pub/Sub and asynchronous messaging
Docker
MVVM

Responsibilities

Own the target-state architecture for the enterprise data platform across ingestion, transformation, storage, compute, and delivery layers
Define and enforce architectural standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns; lead design reviews and document platform decisions (ADRs)
Drive platform strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities, including build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations
Design platform capabilities as reusable, self-serve data products with clear interfaces, SLAs, and ownership
Establish consumption patterns that enable domain teams and analytics engineers to self-serve while maintaining governance, quality, and lineage
Design and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and networking for Databricks, including hub-spoke topology, Private Link, and secure service connectivity
Own Databricks workspace administration (Unity Catalog, access controls, service principals, cluster policies, secrets, cost optimization)
Implement identity, access, and security controls using Azure Entra ID, SCIM provisioning, RBAC, data masking, encryption, and audit logging
Define and enforce ingestion and integration standards (e.g., Fivetran) and ensure seamless support for dbt and analytics engineering workflows
Own operational reliability through IaC, CI/CD, observability, performance tuning, incident response, and translating platform capabilities into business outcomes