Azure Data Architect

Job Title: Azure Data Architect

Work Location: Houston TX 77079(Hybrid)

Contract duration: Long term

Job Details:

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Skills

Strong experience with Azure Data Platform including:

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2)

Azure Notebooks

Hands-on expertise with:

ETL / ELT pipeline design

Delta Lake tables and ACID transactions

Spark (PySpark Spark SQL)

Data modeling for analytics and AI

Strong SQL skills and data modeling experience.

Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines (Azure DevOps Git).

Exposure to GenAI and LLM data patterns (RAG embeddings text pipelines).

Familiarity with supporting AI/ML workflows including:

Feature engineering

Model training data preparation

Inference data pipelines

Leadership & Delivery Skills

Proven ability to lead teams and deliver complex data platforms.

Strong architectural thinking and problem-solving skills.

Promote AI-first data design principles across teams.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Enable upskilling of teams in AI-friendly data engineering patterns.