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Job Title: Data Fabric Architect
Job Location: Warren, NJ
Employment Type: Contract
Job Overview
We are hiring a Data Fabric Architect to lead enterprise-wide data architecture strategy enabling unified data access across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems. This role is responsible for designing scalable, secure, metadata-driven architectures supporting analytics, AI platforms, and real-time decision systems.
The architect will define standards for data virtualization, governance, interoperability, lineage, semantic modeling, and orchestration frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Design enterprise-scale Data Fabric architecture frameworks
- Define metadata-driven integration strategies
- Establish standards for data governance and lineage tracking
- Architect hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud data integration solutions
- Enable AI-ready data platforms supporting GenAI workloads
- Lead lakehouse modernization initiatives
- Implement semantic data layers for enterprise analytics
- Define reusable ingestion and transformation patterns
- Support platform scalability and performance optimization
- Collaborate with cloud architects and AI engineering teams
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in enterprise data architecture
- 5 years designing large-scale distributed data platforms
- Strong experience designing enterprise Data Fabric solutions
- Expertise with:
- Azure Fabric / Databricks / Snowflake / Synapse
- Data virtualization technologies
- Metadata-driven architectures
- Experience designing data governance frameworks
- Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns
- Experience supporting AI / ML data platforms
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline