[Hiring] Consulting Senior Data Architect @Omm IT Solutions

Role Description

• 100% Remote position in Canada.
• Preferred candidates from EST/CST Time Zone.

Key Responsibilities:

• Microsoft Fabric Enablement (Hands-on Delivery + Standardization)
• Architect and implement Fabric solutions for data engineering (Spark), Data Factory pipelines, and real-time analytics / Event streams aligned to digital product needs.
• Build and standardize Fabric patterns for ingestion, transformation, and serving across workloads including operational analytics, near-real-time, batch, and data science/ML.
• Create repeatable reference implementations for common digital product scenarios (IoT telemetry, time series, transactional + event fusion, documents, geospatial).
• Unified Data Platform Architecture (Target State + Roadmap)
• Produce and maintain the target-state architecture for Fabric-based data platform capabilities.
• Define domain-oriented data product patterns including how shared/enterprise datasets are curated and reused.
• Establish architectural boundaries and integration guidance for shared datasets vs. product-owned datasets.
• Data Modeling Standards (Conceptual / Logical / Physical)
• Define and enforce data modeling standards and templates appropriate to Fabric Lakehouse/Warehouse patterns and product analytics needs.
• Provide modeling guidance for high-variance data types (telemetry, geospatial, documents) and hybrid operational-analytics use cases.
• Define standards for schema evolution, versioning, and contract-first data interfaces (where applicable).
• Governance, Security, and Compliance by Design
• Design and implement a governance model covering classification, retention, lineage, and auditability.
• Ensure compliance guardrails are built into delivery patterns and operational processes to meet GDPR, ISO 27001, and data residency requirements.
• Define and enforce Fabric access controls using Entra ID, RBAC, and workspace-level controls (including guidance for separation of duties and least privilege).
• CI/CD + Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Fabric
• Define and implement a CI/CD approach for Fabric artifacts as the enterprise source of truth.
• Establish release patterns for Fabric changes (promotion strategy, environment separation, approvals, and quality gates) aligned to platform standards.
• Manage Fabric-related platform configuration using Terraform as the IaC approach (including reusable modules/patterns).
• Create golden path templates and guidance that product teams can adopt with minimal friction.
• Capacity Planning, Cost Model, and Chargeback/Show back
• Design Fabric capacity strategy (SKU sizing, workload isolation, scaling model) to support multiple products reliably.
• Define guardrails and operational practices that reduce waste and improve predictability.
• Reliability, Observability, and Operational Readiness
• Define reliability patterns and operational standards for data pipelines and real-time workloads.
• Integrate logging/monitoring with Log Analytics and security monitoring with Sentinel, including alerting and incident response considerations.
• Define and operationalize data quality SLAs (freshness, completeness, accuracy, timeliness) and embed quality checks into delivery pipelines.
• Consulting Engagement + Governance Forums
• Participate in architectural governance and provide architecture review/sign-off, with authority to mandate standards when necessary to protect platform integrity.
• Partner closely with platform engineering to align patterns across identity, network, DevOps, and security.
• Working Style & Mindset
• Hands-on architect: you can design and build the critical Fabric artifacts to prove patterns.
• Platform-oriented: you think in reusable standards, templates, and repeatable governance.
• Strong consultative presence: you can advise product teams while also driving decisions and outcomes.
• Comfortable with authority: you can mandate standards when required to protect the platform and business.
• Documentation discipline: you produce clear ADRs, standards, and operating playbooks.
• Engagement & Collaboration
• Supports product teams through office hours and project-based sprints.
• Works primarily with: Azure lead architect, security architect/engineer, DevOps platform engineer, and product engineering teams.
• Data ownership remains with product teams; this role defines the how (standards/patterns/governance), not centralized ownership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture/data engineering roles, including platform-scale design.
• Proven Microsoft Fabric production implementations; you have delivered Fabric solutions that run in production with real operational constraints.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Fabric areas central to our rollout:
• Data Engineering
• Data Factory (pipelines)
• Real-time analytics / Event Streams
• Strong architecture capability across mixed data types: transactional, telemetry/events, documents, geospatial, time series.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and governing:
• Data modeling standards (conceptual/logical/physical)
• Data governance (classification, retention, lineage)
• Security patterns using Entra ID, RBAC, workspace-level controls
• Compliance guardrails for GDPR, ISO 27001, and data residency
• Strong DevOps fluency:
• CI/CD patterns and operational delivery
• Terraform as mandatory IaC for repeatability and standardization
• Ability to define standards and enforce guardrails while maintaining a delivery-first, pragmatic approach.

Requirements

• Required Deliverables:
• Target-state architecture
• Data model standards: conceptual / logical / physical + templates
• Domain-oriented data product patterns and operating guidance
• Governance model: classification, retention, lineage, access controls
• Fabric workspace strategy + operating model (environments, isolation, ownership, lifecycle)
• CI/CD approach for Fabric artifacts integrated with platform guardrails
• IaC approach using Terraform for Fabric-related configuration
• Cost model + capacity planning strategy (SKU sizing, isolation, show back/chargeback)
• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for key platform decisions

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