Position: Azure Data Architect
Location: Remote with occasional travel / Chicago, IL
Duration: Long Term Contract With potential extension.
About the Role
A public sector client is piloting a digital wallet and identity gateway, starting with business enrollment.
You will design the architecture and deliver a working pilot that matches each business across multiple
agency datasets and issues verifiable credentials, built to scale to more agencies and credential types.
What You'll Do
• Design the target architecture for the identity gateway, digital wallet and entity resolution, and
deliver a working pilot with a scale-out roadmap
• Build business entity resolution across agency datasets (FEIN, legal name, DBA, address) with
match-quality metrics
• Implement credential issuance and verification (W3C VC/DID, OID4VCI/OID4VP, SD-JWT),
including how authorized representatives act for a business
• Define keyed hashing and key management in Azure Key Vault, with privacy-by-design controls:
selective disclosure, data minimization and no tracking of credential use
• Integrate with Microsoft Entra ID and agency identity providers, document the design and run
knowledge transfer
Must Have
1. 6+ years in data engineering or data architecture, including 3+ years on Azure (ADLS, Databricks
or Fabric)
2. Hands-on entity resolution, master data management or record linkage across organizations
3. Strong data modeling, SQL and Python, with secure pipelines and APIs for sensitive data
4. Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
5. Hands-on verifiable credentials: OID4VCI/OID4VP or SD-JWT
6. Applied cryptography: hashing and HMAC, Azure Key Vault or HSM, key rotation
Nice to Have
• Business registry, vendor master or know-your-business (KYB) data
• Government digital identity or mobile driver's license (ISO 18013-5/-7) programs
• NIST SP 800-63-4, BBS+ signatures or zero-knowledge proofs
• CISSP, CCSP or AZ-500 certification
