Cloud Architect/Team Lead

Job Description

Key responsibilities

Cloud Architect/Team Lead (about 50% architecture, 50% project management)

• Senior-level experience leading enterprise Azure data architecture, platform strategy, security, governance and multidisciplinary data engineering teams
• Lead ADAW cloud data architecture, lakehouse design, data ingestion and retention standards
• Manage integration projects and enhancement requests through agile delivery in Azure DevOps
• Translate business requirements into tasks for the data engineering team and report status, risks and milestones
• Manage budgets, staff hours, weekly/monthly status reports and invoices with the PA manager
• Lead API, batch, streaming and SFTP integrations; monitor Power BI Premium capacity and Synapse performance
• Own security architecture: IAM, role-based access controls and key management

Split time across:

• new integrations and enhancements (50%), maintenance and support (25%), and documentation and program management (25%). Allocations may vary with project priorities.

Qualifications: Required (demonstrated hands-on experience)

• Microsoft Azure: Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Azure SQL, Databricks and DevOps
• Relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI
• Agile delivery and translating business requirements into technical solutions

Preferred

Relevant Microsoft certifications (not mandatory; equivalent project experience is accepted)

• The client sets no minimum years of experience, degree or clearance requirement.