We have a new requirement with Virtusa for a Data Architect – FDE. Please review the details below and start sourcing qualified candidates.
Job Title: Data Architect – FDE
Client: Virtusa
Location: Hartford, CT / Minneapolis, MN – Onsite
Experience: 12+ Years
Employment Type: Contract
Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure
Visa: H1B – C2C
Rate: $70/hr
About the Role
We are looking for a highly hands-on Data Architect with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) capabilities to solve complex enterprise data problems within a Microsoft Azure environment.
This is not a purely conceptual architecture position. The candidate will work directly with business, product, data, and engineering stakeholders to understand complex and sometimes ambiguous problems, investigate existing systems and data, design appropriate solutions, and remain closely involved through implementation and production deployment.
The ideal candidate should combine enterprise-level architecture expertise with strong hands-on engineering capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with business and technical stakeholders to understand complex data and technology problems.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable architecture and engineering solutions.
- Understand existing data ecosystems, applications, integrations, data flows, and constraints.
- Define target-state architectures for enterprise data solutions.
- Architect scalable solutions using Azure Databricks, ADLS, ADF, Microsoft Fabric/Synapse, and related Azure technologies.
- Define Lakehouse, Delta Lake, batch, streaming, and analytical architecture patterns.
- Remain hands-on with Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and data engineering.
- Develop or guide rapid prototypes to validate architecture decisions.
- Define ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, API, and integration patterns.
- Architect solutions spanning data platforms, APIs, applications, analytics, and AI/ML consumers.
- Define logical and physical data models.
- Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, security, governance, and observability.
- Design for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and cost optimization.
- Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Troubleshoot complex cross-platform technical issues.
- Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance to Data Engineers and FDE teams.
- Partner with AI/ML, DevOps, security, product, and application engineering teams.
- Own technical outcomes from problem discovery through production implementation.
- 10+ years of progressive Data Engineering/Data Architecture experience.
- Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks.
- Strong Python and PySpark skills.
- Advanced SQL.
- ADLS Gen2.
- Azure Data Factory (ADF).
- Lakehouse and Delta Lake architecture.
- Data modeling.
- ETL/ELT and distributed data processing.
- API and enterprise integration architecture.
- CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
- Data security, governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale data platforms.
- Strong stakeholder-facing communication and technical leadership.
- Ability to move between architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem solving.
- Microsoft Fabric.
- Azure Synapse.
- Unity Catalog.
- Event Hubs/Kafka.
- AKS/Kubernetes.
- Terraform/IaC.
- Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry exposure.
- Healthcare data/platform experience.
- Consulting, customer-facing engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering experience.
- H1B candidates on C2C only.
- Rate: $70/hr C2C.
- Candidate must be comfortable working onsite in Hartford, CT or Minneapolis, MN.
- Please prioritize candidates who are hands-on architects and can contribute directly to engineering and implementation.
- Purely conceptual/enterprise architecture profiles without strong hands-on Azure data engineering experience will not be a good fit.
- Strong experience with Azure Databricks, Python, PySpark, SQL, ADLS Gen2, ADF, Lakehouse, and Delta Lake is required.
- Please ensure candidates closely match the technical requirements before submission.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive Data Engineering or Data Architecture experience
- Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience
- Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks
- Strong Python and PySpark skills
- Advanced SQL skills
- Experience with ADLS Gen2
- Experience with Azure Data Factory
- Lakehouse and Delta Lake architecture experience
- Data modeling experience
- ETL/ELT and distributed data processing experience
- API and enterprise integration architecture experience
- CI/CD and modern engineering practices
- Experience with data security, governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale data platforms
- Strong stakeholder-facing communication and technical leadership
- Ability to perform both architecture and hands-on technical problem solving
- Microsoft Fabric experience
- Azure Synapse experience
- Unity Catalog experience
- Event Hubs or Kafka experience
- AKS or Kubernetes experience
- Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience
- Azure OpenAI or AI Foundry exposure
- Healthcare data or platform experience
- Consulting, customer-facing engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering experience
- Willingness to work onsite in Hartford, Connecticut or Minneapolis, Minnesota
- H1B status with C2C eligibility
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