** This is an opportunity to join our dynamic team of data engineering professionals working to design and implement database projects for our clients. This position is fully remote (indefinitely). **
Emergent Software is seeking a Senior Data Architect who is intelligent, passionate, detail-oriented, and enjoys working architecting scalable data platforms within the Microsoft suite of data solutions. This role serves as the technical lead for enterprise data platform engagements, guiding data engineers, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring the technical success of the project. This 100% remote position is for self-starters with good communication skills, strong work ethic, and the ability to manage work across numerous clients and priorities. This role requires a technical professional who thrives in dynamic environments, can wear multiple hats, and is passionate about designing, maintaining, and optimizing modern data platforms.
Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software
Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave
Responsibilities
Architect end-to-end data platforms on Azure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and future-proof design
Lead client advisory on data platform modernization, migration strategies (e.g., on-prem to Azure), and data architecture maturity
Contribute to thought leadership, such as blog posts, webinars, or speaking engagements on Azure data topics
Architect data storage layers (Azure OneLake, Azure SQL, Synapse Analytics) for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
Manage data security, privacy, and compliance (RBAC, encryption, sensitive data masking) across Azure services
Required Experience
Experience designing lakehouse architectures using ADLS/OneLake, Delta/Parquet, medallion layers, or equivalent patterns.
Experience optimizing Synapse, SQL pools, Fabric Warehouses, ADF mappings, etc.
Nice to Have Experience
Our Vetting Process
At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best team members capable of contributing high quality work. If you think you re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top performers. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:
Benefits Package Details
Medical Insurance: up to 84% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
HSA Contribution: up to $200/month
Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs
401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary
Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week
Employee referral & customer referral bonuses
Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs
Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
Paid parental leave: up to 6 weeks for birthing parents; 2 weeks for non-birthing parents
About Emergent Software
Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development, cloud consulting, and data engineering company serving clients across the country. We are regularly adding to our team of talented software engineers, cloud architects, data engineers, UX designers, technical product owners and more who can help us deliver high quality services for our clients.
We are a remote-first company
Since our inception, we've embraced a remote-friendly culture, promoting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic struck in 2020, our transition to fully remote work was seamless just a matter of cleaning out the fridge. Recognizing an opportunity, we adopted a remote-first approach and began hiring talent from anywhere. We continue to offer our signature Minnesota-nice, Midwest-friendly attitude, ensuring everyone feels valued, whether or not they're familiar with the skyway system.
Your career grows with us
Working with talented engineers on interesting projects creates an engaging environment for software development enthusiasts. By working directly with our experienced team, participating in our staff development program, and solving complex problems across a variety of projects, you ll find numerous opportunities for long-term career growth.
At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients.
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