Apptad- Lead Azure Fabric DataAI Architect

Seeking an experienced Azure Fabric DataAI Architect to lead the migration and modernization of our enterprise data platform. You will drive the transition from Yellowbrick to Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, rebuild pipelines in Azure Data Factory Fabric, and integrate Qlik QVDs. The role also covers optimizing the Power BI semantic layer, ensuring data governance, quality, and compliance with Microsoft Purview, and enabling AI Search, Intelligent Document Processing, and Gen AIAI Foundry capabilities.

In addition to technical delivery, the role demands a strong emphasis on technical leadership for platform data architecture. You will help define and enforce modeling and architecture principles, informally lead the Platform Services team, and drive best practices for solution delivery, quality, and engineering excellence across the data ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities :

• Drive the endtoend migration of Yellowbrick workloads into Microsoft Fabric Data WarehouseLakehouse.
• Design and build new pipelines in Azure Data Factory Fabric to replace CloverDX.
• Migrate and transform data from Qlik QVD sources into Fabric pipelines.
• Implement and optimize business rules in the Power BI semantic layer.
• Govern and monitor data quality, including deduplication, cleansing, and standardization.
• Ensure compliance and handling of sensitive data (PII, PHI) in line with regulatory requirements.
• Apply governance standards using Microsoft Purview for metadata, lineage, classification, and security.
• Manage and optimize ADLS Gen2 as a storage backbone for Fabric.
• Support AI Search and AI Intelligent Document Processing use cases on top of Fabric data.
• Enable Gen AI and AI Foundry integrations by providing governed, high-quality datasets.
• Implement Azure FinOps practices for cost optimization and performance efficiency.
• Leverage Python for automation, advanced transformations, and lightweight ML tasks.
• Collaborate with healthcare stakeholders; Epic Cogito experience highly desirable.
• Mentor team members, manage the Platform Services roadmap, and champion engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders....healthcare, BI, AI, and compliance. Epic Cogito experience preferred.

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Qualifications :

Preferred Skills

Strong communication skills to bridge technical and business teams