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Director Data Architect (Microsoft Data & AI)
Job Location:
Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 190000 - 230000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
18 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
16 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
At TTEC Digital we coach clients to ensure their employees feel valued and fully supported because an amazing customer experience is an employee first process. Our vision is the same a place where employees know they can thrive.
We are seeking an experienced Director Data Architect to provide architecture leadership across our Microsoft Data & AI practice.
This role will translate client business and technology priorities into scalable secure governed and AI-ready data architectures using Microsoft Azure Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks.
This role will translate client business and technology priorities into scalable secure governed and AI-ready data architectures using Microsoft Azure Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks.
The ideal candidate combines deep Microsoft Data & AI architecture expertise hands-on technical depth and strong client-facing skills. This individual will lead architecture from discovery and solution design through implementation while helping clients modernize their data environments and enable Analytics Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities.
What Youll Be Doing
Client & Technology Leadership
- Serve as a trusted Data & AI architecture advisor to client business and technology stakeholders.
- Lead client discovery and architecture workshops translating business needs into executable Microsoft Data & AI architectures and modernization roadmaps.
- Guide architecture decisions across Microsoft Fabric Azure Databricks or integrated Fabric Databricks architectures based on client requirements and architectural fit.
- Communicate architecture alternatives trade-offs risks costs and recommendations to executive and technical audiences.
- Support presales activities including solution shaping architecture development technical presentations estimation proposals and statements of work.
- Collaborate with Microsoft architects account teams and technology specialists on strategic opportunities.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects and engineering teams while maintaining sufficient hands-on depth to validate designs and guide implementation.
Data Architecture & Modernization
- Define target-state Data & AI architectures solution architectures standards and reusable design patterns leveraging the Microsoft ecosystem.
- Lead architecture for data modernization cloud migration analytics and AI initiatives.
- Architect modern lakehouse and data platform solutions using Microsoft Fabric OneLake Azure Databricks ADLS Delta Lake and Power BI.
- Define and implement Medallion Architecture (Bronze Silver Gold) patterns for scalable ingestion transformation data quality governance and consumption.
- Design architectures spanning batch and streaming ingestion data transformation integration storage semantic models APIs analytics and AI consumption.
- Establish strategies for data products enterprise data models semantic layers metadata lineage data quality and master/reference data.
- Develop architecture patterns that balance scalability security performance cost maintainability and speed-to-value.
- Embed data governance security privacy metadata lineage and data quality into architecture and solution designs.
- Define governance patterns leveraging Microsoft Purview Fabric governance capabilities or Databricks Unity Catalog.
- Promote governed and reusable enterprise data products rather than isolated project-specific datasets.
AI Data Agents & Generative AI
- Architect AI-ready data platforms supporting Generative AI Agentic AI and enterprise AI applications.
- Design solutions leveraging Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Azure AI Search Microsoft Fabric Data Agents LLMs RAG embeddings vector search and AI agents.
- Define patterns connecting governed enterprise data semantic models unstructured knowledge AI models and agents.
- Establish approaches for grounding AI evaluation observability security MLOps/LLMOps and production readiness.
- Evaluate emerging Microsoft Data & AI capabilities and define practical enterprise adoption patterns.
What Youll Bring to the Role
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science Information Systems or a related discipline.
- 12 years of technology experience including significant experience in enterprise data platforms cloud analytics and architecture.
- 5 years of architecture or senior technical leadership experience delivering large-scale enterprise data solutions.
- Deep experience architecting Data & Analytics solutions on Microsoft Azure and defining target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure Databricks including OneLake lakehouse architecture Delta Lake data engineering semantic models and analytics.
- Strong understanding of Medallion Architecture data products semantic layers batch/streaming architectures APIs and event-driven integration.
- Strong technical foundation in SQL Python Spark distributed processing data modeling integration patterns and APIs.
- Strong understanding of Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Azure AI Search Fabric Data Agents Generative AI RAG vector search and Agentic AI architectures.
- Experience designing architectures supporting enterprise analytics Power BI AI/ML Generative AI and conversational access to enterprise data.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Purview Unity Catalog data governance security privacy metadata lineage and data quality.
- Strong understanding of Azure security including Entra ID RBAC managed identities Key Vault VNets and Private Link/private endpoints.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into architecture decisions solution designs and implementation roadmaps.
- Experience with client discovery presales solution architecture estimation technical presentations and proposal development.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage client leaders Microsoft stakeholders architects and engineering teams.
- Relevant Microsoft Azure Microsoft Fabric and/or Databricks certifications preferred.
$190000 - $230000 a year
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Team Overview
For ten years in a row our Microsoft practice has achieved Microsofts Inner Circle Award designation and we have been recognized as Partner of the year for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Service Partner of the year for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing and as a Partner of the year finalist for Intelligent Sales & addition to our ongoing Gold Partner status our competencies range from software development and deployment of Dynamics 365 to Power Platform Azure and Microsoft 365. In mid-2022 the team was also named as one of only a handful of launch partners for the Microsoft D365 Contact Center.
Our integrated team approach of experienced CX engineers developers data scientists and solution architects design deploy and support complex and fully integrated digital solutions that are focused on creating an exceptional customer experience.
About Us
Avtex is now TTEC Digital. The acquisition aligns to TTECs continued focus on fueling experience transformations. Our deep expertise in the most innovative and disruptive brands in the digital industry enables our clients to provide amazing customer experiences.
TTEC Digital and our 1700 employees pioneer engagement and growth solutions that fuel the exceptional customer experience (CX). TTEC Engage is a 60000 employee service company with customers in more than 80 countries. Together we utilize a holistic approach applying solutions from two centers of excellence Engage and Digital.
TTEC is a proud equal opportunity employer where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability. TTEC has fully embraced and is committed to expanding our diverse and inclusive workforce. We strive to reflect the communities we serve while delivering amazing service and technology centered around humanity.
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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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About Company
We believe that humanity and technology should âco-exist, and that at the nexus of the âmost powerful experiences, humanity and technology collide. At TTEC Digital, we combine the expertise, innovation, partnerships, and passion of three industry-leading customer experience com ... View more
