About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data architectures
- Strong expertise with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence, Semantic Models and Governance
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Azure, Databricks and Snowflake
- Strong data modelling expertise
- Deep understanding of modern data architecture principles and patterns
- Experience delivering data platforms across the full lifecycle, from ingestion through governance and consumption
- Hands-on SQL and data engineering knowledge
- Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code; Terraform is desirable
- Strong stakeholder management and consulting skills
- Desirable: Microsoft Fabric or Azure certifications
- Desirable: experience in Data & AI consulting environments, bid support and pre-sales, AI-ready data architectures, practice development or leadership of distributed delivery teams
Responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end Microsoft Fabric solutions across Lakehouse, Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Semantic Models and Governance
- Define enterprise data architectures that support analytics, reporting and AI use cases
- Lead conceptual, logical and physical data modelling
- Guide delivery teams through complex data transformation programmes
- Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to align architecture with business objectives
- Create reusable architecture patterns, frameworks and accelerators for future client engagements
- Support pre-sales activities, solution design, technical proposals and bid responses
- Drive best practices in governance, security, data quality and platform engineering
- Provide leadership and mentorship to architects, engineers and delivery teams
Technologies
- AI
- ARM
- Architect
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Data Warehouse
- Databricks
- Fabric
- Support
- SQL
- Security
- Snowflake
- Terraform
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We are seeking a Data Architect with deep Microsoft Fabric expertise for a three-month engagement, based in London three days per week. The role offers a day rate and is Inside IR35. You will join a growing Data & AI practice delivering enterprise-scale data transformation programmes, working alongside architects, engineers, AI specialists and senior client stakeholders. The position combines hands-on architecture, delivery leadership and client engagement, with opportunities to influence architecture strategy across enterprise clients and contribute to reusable frameworks and best practices.
We offer a hybrid working model, career growth, and a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on continuous learning and innovation. We are ARM, a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy providing technical contingency recruitment and broader resource solutions across the technical sector. We will not send your CV without your permission.
last updated 45 week of 2026