Senior Microsoft Fabric Architect and Consulting Lead

The Technology Department of one of the fastest-growing accounting firms in the country is seeking a Senior Microsoft Fabric Architect and Consulting Lead who is motivated to learn, excited to collaborate, and passionate about delivering outstanding results. This individual will have a direct impact on our firm’s mission of serving as a catalyst for those striving to achieve their highest potential.

The Sr Microsoft Fabric Architect and Consulting Lead is responsible for designing, architecting, and guiding the delivery of enterprise data and analytics solutions primarily leveraging Microsoft Fabric and related MS family of products (Power Platform Copilot, etc.). This role leads clients, data teams, and technology stakeholders in value identification, compelling understanding of enterprise intelligence, and defining scalable, secure, maintainable, and practical data platform solutions.

Positioned as a senior technical and consulting role, the Sr. Microsoft Fabric Architect leads client engagements from discovery and solution design through implementation, adoption, and transition. This role serves as a trusted technical advisor to clients while providing architectural direction to Data Engineers, Power BI Developers, consultants, and other delivery team members. The Architect is responsible for ensuring technical quality, effective communication, sound governance, and successful client outcomes.

What You’ll Do:

Client Engagement and Consulting Leadership

• Serve as the senior technical and consulting lead for Microsoft Fabric client engagements.
• Lead client discovery sessions, architecture workshops, roadmap discussions, and executive briefings.
• Build strong relationships with client executives, business leaders, data teams, and technology stakeholders.
• Translate business goals, operating needs, and technical constraints into clear architecture and delivery recommendations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in plain language appropriate for both executive and technical audiences.
• Establish engagement expectations, decision processes, working agreements, and communication cadence.
• Manage client concerns, difficult conversations, competing priorities, and changing requirements with professionalism.
• Provide clear recommendations, identify tradeoffs, and help clients make informed decisions.
• Identify follow-on opportunities where additional advisory, data, analytics, automation, or AI services could create client value.

Engagement Management

• Lead assigned client engagements with accountability for scope, schedule, budget awareness, quality, risks, and outcomes.
• Coordinate delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and responsibilities across Anders and client teams.
• Monitor engagement progress and proactively communicate status, decisions, risks, issues, and required client actions.
• Partner with project managers and practice leaders on estimates, staffing, utilization, and delivery planning.
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, assumptions, scope definitions, and change requests.
• Ensure deliverables are complete, understandable, and aligned with client expectations before presentation or release.
• Support adoption, knowledge transfer, and transition planning so clients can operate and extend delivered solutions.

Team and Delivery Leadership

• Lead and coordinate Data Engineers, Power BI Developers, consultants, and other specialists assigned to an engagement.
• Provide clear direction, delegate effectively, and maintain accountability for team commitments and delivery quality.
• Facilitate team working sessions, architecture reviews, design decisions, and code reviews.
• Coach team members on consulting behaviors, client communication, technical standards, and delivery practices.
• Resolve delivery blockers and escalate issues early when client outcomes, scope, or quality are at risk.
• Create a collaborative environment across Anders, client, and third-party teams.

Architecture and Solution Design

• Lead the architecture and design of end-to-end Microsoft Fabric solutions.
• Define enterprise data platform strategy centered on OneLake.
• Design Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Engineering, semantic modeling, and Power BI architectures.
• Establish Medallion Architecture standards across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
• Define Direct Lake, data integration, orchestration, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Create architecture diagrams, data flow maps, decision records, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, supportable, and aligned with client business goals.

Platform Governance and Operations

• Establish security architecture, including workspace design, role-based access control, row-level security, and data access standards.
• Define Microsoft Fabric governance, data ownership, development, deployment, and support frameworks.
• Lead capacity planning, performance management, and workload optimization.
• Implement monitoring, observability, data quality, lineage, and operational practices.
• Oversee continuous integration, continuous delivery, environment promotion, and deployment automation.

What We’re Looking For:

• Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Engineering, semantic models, Power BI, and Fabric Pipelines.
• Strong experience with SQL, Python, PySpark, and Azure Data Factory or comparable data integration and orchestration technologies.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, including Medallion Architecture, data modeling, data integration, governance, security, and production data environments.
• Experience designing scalable and secure enterprise data platforms and establishing associated governance and operating models.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, monitoring, observability, data quality, lineage, and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud data and analytics technologies, preferably within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
• Experience with Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft AI Foundry, or Azure AI Services is preferred.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and coordinate work across business, technical, and project stakeholders.
• Demonstrated consulting experience, including client discovery, solution design, executive presentations, and technical advisory responsibilities.
• Experience contributing to project estimates, proposals, statements of work, and delivery planning.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to provide direct recommendations, communicate technical tradeoffs, and guide clients through complex decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining strong client relationships and delivery quality.
• High level of professionalism and client-facing confidence.

Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 8+ years of progressive experience designing and delivering enterprise data, analytics, or technology platforms.
• 3+ years of experience working with Microsoft Fabric or an equivalent modern data platform.
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate, Fabric Data Engineer Associate, or other relevant Microsoft Fabric certification preferred.
• Additional certifications related to Azure, data engineering, analytics, cloud architecture, or solution architecture are a plus.