Enterprise Microsoft Fabric Architect

Ciklum is looking for an Enterprise Microsoft Fabric Architect to join our team full-time in the Charlotte, North Carolina.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As an Enterprise Microsoft Fabric Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. We are modernizing how data is delivered across the enterprise, with Microsoft Fabric serving as the foundation for analytics, digital products, and AI. We are looking for a Principal Enterprise Data Architect to lead that architecture and help turn the strategy into working solutions. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can set direction, make pragmatic decisions, and stay engaged through delivery.
You will help build trusted, reusable data products that support Power BI, business applications, and emerging AI use cases. The right candidate combines strong Microsoft Fabric expertise with sound enterprise architecture judgment and the ability to lead through influence across global teams.

Responsibilities:

• Set the architecture and technical direction for our Microsoft Fabric platform
• Define practical, reusable patterns for data ingestion, transformation, Lakehouse and Warehouse design, data modeling, semantic models, security, and governance
• Ensure trusted data and business logic can be reused across Power BI, React-based applications, APIs, and AI solutions
• Build an AI-ready data foundation with the quality, metadata, lineage, context, and controls needed for generative AI and machine learning use cases
• Guide the modernization of legacy data platforms into Microsoft Fabric while balancing delivery speed, reliability, performance, and cost
• Partner with data, application, security, architecture, and business teams from solution design through production
• Mentor engineers, review key designs, and communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs clearly to technical teams and senior leaders

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or analytics, with experience leading complex enterprise solutions
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse or Warehouse, pipelines, Spark, Power BI, and semantic models
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, medallion architecture, enterprise integration, metadata, lineage, security, and governance
• Experience designing cloud data platforms that serve reporting, analytics, APIs, or modern applications
• Working knowledge of how enterprise data supports generative AI and machine learning, including secure access, grounding, and retrieval
• Ability to move between strategy and implementation and communicate effectively with engineers, business partners, and senior leaders

Desirable:

• Experience with Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, or Fabric Data Science
• Experience supporting React or other modern applications through APIs or embedded analytics
• Experience integrating or modernizing data from SAP, Salesforce, or other large enterprise platforms
• Relevant Microsoft Fabric, Azure architecture, data engineering, or AI certification

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress. In the US, Ciklum is growing fast—inviting experienced professionals to lead digital transformation alongside Fortune 500 clients. Be part of a company where innovation and impact go hand in hand.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.