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.