Senior Data Architect – Microsoft Azure & Fabric

Ainos Luxembourg, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the POST Group, supports organizations in their digital transformation with a team of 50 passionate experts. From application development and business intelligence to testing and Microsoft solutions, we help our clients build the technological foundations of tomorrow.

As part of our growth, we are looking for a Senior Data Architect specializing in Microsoft Azure & Fabric to strengthen our Data & Analytics team. If you want to define enterprise data architectures, establish sustainable standards, and guide our clients toward a modern analytics platform, this role is for you.

Your responsibilities:

Enterprise data architecture

• Define and maintain the target data architecture (conceptual, logical, physical).
• Design blueprints covering data ingestion, storage, transformation, exposure, and consumption.
• Ensure the consistency of the architecture across multiple business domains.

Microsoft Azure & Fabric architecture

• Design a unified analytics platform based on Microsoft Fabric & OneLake .
• Define the uses and boundaries between Fabric Data Factory, Lakehouse/Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence and Power BI (Direct Lake, semantic models).
• Establish best practices for integration between Fabric and Azure (regions, capacities, workspaces).

Governance, security & compliance

• Define governance standards: nomenclature, ownership, quality, life cycle.
• Design security and access control policies at the platform level.
• To guide the key decisions related to data residency and Fabric capabilities.

Architectural Leadership

• To be the technical expert and decision-maker on data architecture choices.
• Supporting Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers and BI teams in the application of standards.
• Validate architectural patterns and avoid multi-tool drift.

Migration & modernization

• Designing migration paths to Microsoft Fabric from legacy environments.
• Evaluate existing architectures and propose plans for streamlining and optimization.
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Your profile:

Experience & Expertise

• Minimum 5 years of experience in data architecture, ideally in a Microsoft environment.
• Proficiency in Azure Data services (Azure SQL, Data Lake, security).
• Proven expertise in Microsoft Fabric & OneLake .
• Strong skills in governance, security and data modeling.

Analytical & strategic skills

• A cross-cutting and long-term vision of the data ecosystem.
• Ability to arbitrate between business needs, technical constraints and governance requirements.
• Ability to document, present and defend enterprise architecture choices.
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