Architect – Analytics

Role Overview

• Own end-to-end architecture and scope for your projects, leading teams to design and deliver Azure solutions that meet agreed goals for value, security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert on your engagements, guiding consultants and engineers so implementation stays aligned with the architecture and standards.
• Apply sound engineering practices—clear interfaces, modular design, and testability—to produce reliable, maintainable solutions in your primary domain.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout implementation, including design and pull-request reviews, shaping cloud patterns and guardrails and offering practical options to unblock teams.
• Use AI tools to accelerate code, tests, documentation, and similar tasks, and share effective practices so they become repeatable gains for teams and clients.
• Design advanced semantic models using star schemas, DAX, and Power Query.
• Advise clients on Power BI architecture, governance, and deployment strategies.
• Lead discovery and requirements sessions for your workstreams, clarifying scope, dependencies, and risks, and shaping a prioritized backlog with clear acceptance criteria tied to business outcomes.
• Explain complex technical topics in simple, direct language for both technical and non-technical audiences, and consistently connect technical decisions back to client goals.
• Build trust with managers and product owners, influencing priorities and roadmaps in ways that support the client’s long-term interests.
• Enable teams to deliver with stable velocity and low defect rates by providing clear architecture, interfaces, and automation across build, test, and deployment, and by designing for incremental delivery with a clear Definition of Done.
• Align multiple teams on shared outcomes, contracts, and integration points, ensuring dependencies are identified early, owned, and tracked through delivery.
• Support effective Agile practices by ensuring the architecture and backlog structure enable incremental delivery, a clear Definition of Done, and data-informed course corrections based on telemetry and feedback.
• Mentor others through pairing, design reviews, and clear feedback that strengthens design skills, technical judgment, and confidence, with a particular focus on senior engineers and technical leads.
• Provide architectural oversight across teams or workstreams, modeling pragmatic decision-making and teaching others when to keep designs simple and when to introduce new patterns or technologies.
• Support hiring and growth by participating in technical interviews, calibration discussions, and crossproject mentorship.
• Contribute to business development by identifying opportunities across all our capabilities (beyond own specialty) and communicating them to the sales director.
• Partner with sales and account leaders on pursuits by defining the cloud vision, contributing architectural viewpoints, and participating in client workshops, demos, and roadmap discussions.
• Produce solution options, high-level designs, and estimates in your domains, clearly documenting assumptions, dependencies, and risks and explaining how proposed approaches drive business value and reduce risk.
• Create and maintain reusable assets—such as runbooks, workshops, starter repositories, and templates—that make it easier for engineers to deliver consistent solutions.
• Champion modern frameworks, patterns, tools, and AI-assisted practices that improve quality, speed, or reliability in a secure and responsible way.
• Actively participate in enablement efforts that support a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience delivering solutions in a primary domain such as application development, cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or data and analytics.
• 3+ years of experience in solution architecture and leading development or engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or 5+ in consulting.
• Deep expertise in Power BI, including:
• Enterprise report and dashboard design.
• Advanced DAX, M, and PowerQuery skills and performance optimization experience.
• Power BI Service administration and deployment pipelines.
• Deploying cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure data services including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and Azure SQL DB.
• Power BI tenant and workspace management to support development, testing and deployment.
• Experience with analytics and custom visualizations for Power BI using Python, R.
• Strong SQL skills and experience optimizing analytical queries.
• Proven experience leading hybrid and remote teams and maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable delivery across time zones.
• Expertise in at least one major public cloud platform, with Azure strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of core concepts, languages, frameworks, and design patterns in your primary domain, with the ability to apply them to build robust, maintainable systems.
• Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into solutions through APIs, libraries, or cloud-based AI services.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments, including backlog refinement and iteration planning.
• Experience in consulting or professional services is a plus.
• Familiarity with key cloud services for your domain, such as messaging, compute, data, security, networking, and integration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with clear written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated interest in continuous learning and adoption of new cloud technologies.
• Ability to be hands-on with implementation while also designing and communicating complex cloud architectures

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• Python
• SQL

Benefits

• Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work!
• 401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay
• Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days
• Two medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you!
• Option for vision and dental coverage
• 100% employer paid coverage for life and disability insurance
• Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents
• Option for Healthcare FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA
• $67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance
• Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role
• Employee Assistance Program to help with everyday challenges