Microsoft Lead Data Architect

Location- Bangalore

Role Purpose The Microsoft Lead Data Architect owns the end-to-end data architecture for the transformation programme. The role converts business, technical, security, and operational requirements into a scalable Microsoft Azure data-platform design, supported by an actionable HLD, LLD guidance, and migration blueprint.

Experience Profile

- 12–18 years of overall data and technology experience.
- Deep architecture expertise in Microsoft Azure, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and contemporary data-lake or lakehouse platforms.
- Strong experience designing enterprise-scale ingestion, storage, transformation, analytics, governance, and ML/AI capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate complex discovery and architecture workshops.
- Proven experience creating HLDs, reviewing LLDs, and designing large-scale data-migration strategies.

Key Responsibilities

- Plan, design, and facilitate discovery and data-architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Lead an end-end programme covering:

o Data ingestion o Data storage o Data transformation o Security and access management o Azure platform foundations o Analytics and reporting o Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Capture functional and non-functional requirements, constraints, dependencies, and design decisions.
- Produce the HLD for the target Microsoft data platform.




- Define the architecture standards and patterns that guide the development of LLDs.
- Review LLDs to confirm alignment with approved HLD decisions and resolve gaps or deviations.
- Design the target architecture across ingestion, storage, processing, orchestration, serving, governance, security, analytics, and ML/AI layers.
- Define appropriate usage patterns for Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, and related Microsoft services.
- Develop the migration blueprint, including migration patterns, sequencing, dependencies, reconciliation, cutover, and risk management.
- Work closely with data engineering, Purview, Power BI, security, infrastructure, analytics, and ML/AI teams.
- Present design recommendations to programme stakeholders and client architecture review boards.
- Support delivery teams during implementation by clarifying decisions and resolving architecture issues.

Key Deliverables

- Discovery and architecture workshop programme
- Workshop materials and documented outcomes
- Microsoft data-platform HLD
- LLD standards and review findings
- Target-state Azure data architecture
- Databricks, Fabric, and data-lake architecture patterns
- Ingestion, transformation, storage, security, and serving patterns
- Analytics and ML/AI enablement architecture
- Data migration blueprint
- Architecture decisions, assumptions, and dependencies

Pay: ₹100,000.00 - ₹150,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

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