Azure Data Architect

Job Title: : Azure Data Architect
Location: REMOTE
Duration: Long Term Contract

Responsibilities:
Engineer Azure-based solutions with a focus on cost-efficiency, performance, and operational effectiveness.
Craft and enforce a framework to quantify data quality across various customer and prospect sources, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.
Scrutinize first-party customer data sources to establish the most reliable ones and formulate ingestion strategies for both first-party and third-party data.
Innovate to decrease data processing times by pinpointing and responding to data source changes.
Manage data lifecycle, including the purging of obsolete data, and collaborate with MDM for data mastering and entity resolution.

Qualifications:
5+ Years experience Designing and Architecting data solutions on Azure is a must.
3+ Years of hands-on experience in Azure data services like Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, ADLSv2, Azure Purview, Azure Fabric, HD Insights, Azure SQL.
4+ Years of experience on Data Engineering and Integrations. (Spark is a must)
2+ Experience working on Data warehouse like Azure Synapse or Snowflake.
Must have excellent communication skills.
Prior experience working with different steps in Data pipelines including standardization, duplication, enrichment, validation and others.
Analytical acumen with a strong proficiency in data management and governance.
Proficiency in creating standardized data formats and protocols for effective data exchanges.
Experience in defining and executing data processing strategies to create single versions of truth for customer data.
Prior experience on MDM tooling like TAMR, Informatica , Reltio , Profisee is good to have.