**Role: Fabric Architect** **Total Experience:** 12+ years **Relevant Experience:** 8+ years **Role Overview** The Lead Fabric Architect will own the end-to-end technical architecture and design assurance for the Microsoft Fabric platform. The role will define high-level and low-level designs, establish platform guardrails, guide capacity and workspace design, and ensure the solution is secure, scalable, supportable and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. **Key Responsibilities** + Own the solution architecture, including High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), architecture decisions and technical design documentation. + Define Microsoft Fabric platform architecture, workspace topology, capacity planning, environment strategy and workload allocation. + Establish architectural guardrails covering security, identity, networking, governance, naming conventions and resource management. + Define architecture patterns for Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, shortcuts, data ingestion, transformation and consumption, as applicable to the solution. + Guide the implementation of development, test, UAT and production environments and their promotion strategy. + Provide technical authority across platform engineering, data engineering, DevOps, analytics and AI workstreams. + Review and assure designs for scalability, performance, resilience, maintainability, security and cost optimisation. + Define integration patterns with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power BI,



Power Platform and other required enterprise services. + Guide monitoring, observability, operational support, disaster recovery and business continuity design, as applicable. + Support technical risk management, design reviews, proof of concepts and resolution of complex architectural issues. **Required Skills and Experience** + 15+ years of overall IT experience, including 10+ years in solution architecture, data platform architecture or cloud engineering. + Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Fabric architecture and its core capabilities. + Experience designing enterprise data platforms using Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, Direct Lake, semantic models and related Fabric services. + Solid understanding of Fabric capacity management, workspace architecture, security, access control and environment management. + Experience defining HLDs, LLDs, architecture standards, design patterns and technical governance. + Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure security, networking, integration and enterprise identity patterns. + Knowledge of data governance, data lifecycle management, monitoring, performance optimisation and cost management. + Ability to lead technical discussions, challenge design decisions and guide engineering teams. **Preferred:** Experience in banking or regulated environments, with familiarity with enterprise security, auditability, data protection and technology risk requirements.

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