Microsoft Fabric Architect - SME

We are supporting a high-profile organisation on a greenfield Microsoft Fabric initiative and are looking for an experienced Fabric Architect to lead the end-to-end platform design. This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture, governance, and delivery of a brand-new Fabric data platform from the ground up.

If you have delivered Microsoft Fabric solutions at an architectural level, defining Lakehouse structures, medallion models, and analytics-ready datasets, this opportunity is for you., * Designing a greenfield Microsoft Fabric platform, including Lakehouse, Bronze, Silver and Gold layers, and reporting structures

• Defining data ingestion and transformation architecture across multiple sources such as CRM, CMS, SaaS platforms, and GA4
• Designing Fabric Data Factory pipelines and Spark notebooks for scalable ETL/ELT
• Establishing data modelling standards for Silver and Gold (Medallion) layers
• Preparing Power BI-ready datasets with clear fact and dimension schemas
• Providing technical governance guidance, ensuring scalability, maintainability and PII compliance
• Advising on best practices for Fabric, Synapse and Databricks integration

• Experience in Azure data services, including ADF, ADLS and Azure SQL
• Proven experience integrating web analytics, CRM and CMS data at a platform level
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and enterprise data architecture principles

Nice to Have:

• Experience with dbt (Core or Cloud)
• Exposure to modern lakehouse ecosystems such as Databricks or Snowflake
• Background in nonprofit or charity analytics (optional)

If you have architected Microsoft Fabric solutions from scratch and can define clean, scalable, enterprise-grade platforms, we would love to hear from you.