Azure Data Architect (Analytics + BI)

Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad & Gurgaon

Interview process: 2 technical and 1 managerial - one of the interviews they need to attend in person.

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced  professional with 15+ years of experience in end-to-end BI solution delivery, strong customer engagement skills, and hands-on expertise in Azure DE, DataBricks, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. The candidate must have handled at least 4 Azure DE, 1 DataBricks , 2 PBI projects.

Primary Skills:

• 5+ years of experience working with Azure Data Engineering solutions including ADF, Synapse, and orchestration of end-to-end data pipelines at least 5+projects

• 4+ years of experience in defining architecture blueprints for scalable data & analytics solutions, including cloud data platforms.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks, at least 4 projects

• 2+ years of experience in Power BI

• Around 1 year experience in Fabric DE

• 7+ years – translating business requirements into technical specifications and delivering end to end BI and data solutions

Key Technical Skills :

Customer & Architecture:

• Proven experience collaborating with Business & IT teams on requirement gathering & solution design.

• Extensive experience preparing architecture blueprints for scalable data and analytics platforms.

• Independently created HLDs and LLDs for BI and data engineering solutions including data models , pipelines, and reporting layers.

Azure Data Engineering / Databricks / Modelling:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Data Engineering services including Azure Data Factory (ADF), Synapse Analytics, and Data Lake Storage for orchestrating and managing end-to-end data pipelines.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks, implementing ELT pipelines, notebooks, and ML-based data transformations across large-scale distributed datasets.

• Strong experience in designing Gold layer and reusable semantic models for BI consumption and downstream applications.

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring frameworks for Azure-based data engineering workloads.

• Led multiple Data Modernization Projects

Microsoft Fabric:

• Worked with DirectLake, OneLake, and Lakehouses in Fabric

• Built and orchestrated end-to-end data pipelines using Fabric Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks

• Good to have experience working with Fabric Copilots

Power BI:

• Experience in  Power BI Pro, Premium

•  use of DAX, Power Query, and M language

• Experience with Dataflows, Incremental Refresh

Soft Skills:

Communication Skills:

• Communicate effectively with internal and customer stakeholders.

• Communication approach: verbal, emails and instant messages.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive relationships with team members

• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and be open to receiving feedback on your own code.

Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking:

• Capability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.

• Analytical mindset

Task/ Work Updates

• Prior experience in working on Agile/Scrum projects with exposure to tools like Jira/Azure DevOps

• Provides regular updates, proactive and due diligent to carry out responsibilities