What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Architect position at YASH Technologies?
Role: Data Architect
Location: Northbrook, IL
Duration: 6 Months
Primary Skills : Data Architect, Fabric
This is hybrid role 3 days onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
Location: Northbrook, IL
Data Architecture & Design
- Design modern Lakehouse structures using Delta Parquet formats and the Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold).
- Define enterprise data frameworks to unify siloed environments across ERP, CRM, and SaaS platforms.
- Standardize canonical data models and eliminate conflicting data assets to establish a single source of truth.
- Evaluate architectural trade-offs between Direct Lake vs. Import mode, and Lakehouses vs. Warehouses.
Platform Engineering & Orchestration
- Govern the Fabric environment, including capacities, tenant settings, security layers, and domain workspaces.
- Architect end-to-end pipelines utilizing Fabric Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2, and automated Spark notebooks.
- Optimize large-scale datasets through efficient partitioning, vacuuming, and Spark compute configuration.
- Lead legacy migrations moving on-premises data warehouses to Azure and native Fabric structures.
Data Governance & Security
- Implement compliance frameworks including RBAC, Row/Column-Level Security, and Microsoft Purview integration.
- Establish data quality controls and automated anomaly detection patterns across the ingestion lifecycle.
- Maintain shared semantic models to streamline high-performance Power BI reporting across the business.
- Total Experience: 10 years in enterprise data architecture, analytics engineering, or BI platform leadership.
- Fabric Deep-Dive: 2 years of hands-on architectural experience specifically with Microsoft Fabric implementations.
Legacy Upgrades: Proven history of successfully modernizing legacy data estates into cloud architectures.
Thank You
Satti Reddy