About the job
About Us
At Gramian Consultancy, we pride ourselves on being a premier boutique consultancy that excels in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. Our expertise in engineering and leadership empowers organizations to create high-performing teams by connecting them with professionals tailored to their specific needs.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Azure Technical Architect to join a transformative data initiative powered by Azure. This pivotal role bridges data engineering, governance, and platform reliability, with a mission to enhance data quality, trust, and usability across the organization.
You will collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to evaluate and enhance data quality within an Azure Data Lake environment, optimize end-to-end data pipelines, and contribute to the development of scalable data models. A core responsibility includes establishing robust data governance frameworks, encompassing cataloging, lineage, privacy, and security, utilizing tools such as Microsoft Purview.
In addition to technical execution, you will ensure seamless project delivery by engaging with distributed teams, contributing to CI/CD and automation practices, and upholding high standards in SDLC processes, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
Location: Fully Remote
Contract: Long-term contract (no benefits, medical, PTO...)
Responsibilities
- Evaluate the quality of consolidated and standardized data in the Azure Data Lake, recommend enhancements, and implement data quality strategies.
- Collaborate effectively with business and technical stakeholders to define data quality requirements and execute corrective measures.
- Optimize end-to-end data flow and data pipelines, focusing on extraction, transformation, data quality, and performance improvements.
- Partner with the client’s data and IT teams to refine and enhance data models.
- Establish foundational Data Governance capabilities, including cataloging, lineage, privacy, and security using Microsoft Purview.
- Develop automation and CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent, scalable, and reliable operation of data and analytics platforms.
- Engage closely with the project team and offshore project manager.
- Participate in daily stand-up calls and provide daily status updates to the client.
- Attend bi-weekly governance calls with the client.
- Adhere to SDLC processes and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in designing and delivering Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.
- Extensive hands-on experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., SQL Database / Data Warehouse).
- Demonstrated expertise in data governance practices and Azure technologies.
