Architect

• Serve as the senior technical and consulting lead for Microsoft Fabric client engagements
• Lead client discovery sessions, architecture workshops, roadmap discussions, and executive briefings
• Build relationships with client executives, business leaders, data teams, and technology stakeholders
• Translate business goals and technical constraints into architecture and delivery recommendations
• Communicate complex technical concepts to executive and technical audiences
• Establish engagement expectations, decision processes, working agreements, and communication cadence
• Manage client concerns, difficult conversations, competing priorities, and changing requirements
• Identify follow-on advisory, data, analytics, automation, or AI service opportunities
• Lead engagements with accountability for scope, schedule, budget awareness, quality, risks, and outcomes
• Coordinate delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and responsibilities across Anders and client teams
• Monitor progress and communicate status, decisions, risks, issues, and client actions
• Partner with project managers and practice leaders on estimates, staffing, utilization, and delivery planning
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, scope definitions, assumptions, and change requests
• Ensure deliverables are complete, understandable, and aligned with client expectations
• Support adoption, knowledge transfer, and transition planning
• Lead and coordinate Data Engineers, Power BI Developers, consultants, and other specialists
• Provide direction, delegate effectively, and maintain accountability for team commitments and delivery quality
• Facilitate working sessions, architecture reviews, design decisions, and code reviews
• Coach team members on consulting behaviors, client communication, technical standards, and delivery practices
• Resolve delivery blockers and escalate risks
• Lead end-to-end Microsoft Fabric architecture and solution design
• Define enterprise data platform strategy centered on OneLake
• Design Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Engineering, semantic modeling, and Power BI architectures
• Establish Medallion Architecture standards across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers
• Define Direct Lake, data integration, orchestration, and reusable engineering patterns
• Create architecture diagrams, data flow maps, decision records, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, supportable, and aligned with client business goals
• Establish security architecture, including workspace design, role-based access control, row-level security, and data access standards
• Define Microsoft Fabric governance, data ownership, development, deployment, and support frameworks
• Lead capacity planning, performance management, and workload optimization
• Implement monitoring, observability, data quality, lineage, and operational practices
• Oversee continuous integration, continuous delivery, environment promotion, and deployment automation

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Senior Microsoft Fabric Architect – Consulting Lead