Solutions Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Solutions Architect - Data Governance based in the United States.

• Lead enterprise data governance strategy, architecture, and transformation initiatives, acting as a senior technical advisor throughout client engagements.
• Conduct governance discovery workshops, maturity assessments, roadmap exercises, executive strategy sessions, and governance design workshops.
• Design governance frameworks covering data ownership, stewardship models, accountability structures, policies, business glossaries, taxonomies, metadata management, and governance processes.
• Architect and oversee Microsoft Purview implementations, including Unified Catalog, Data Map, Data Estate Insights, business glossary, metadata management, and data lineage capabilities.
• Establish governance standards across structured data environments including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Services, Power BI, SQL Server, Snowflake, Azure Databricks, and related platforms.
• Advise executive sponsors, governance councils, data stewards, and technical teams, translating business objectives and regulatory requirements into scalable governance solutions.
• Develop sustainable governance operating procedures and stewardship practices that encourage adoption and accountability beyond initial implementation.
• Design governance monitoring and reporting solutions using Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and related observability technologies.
• Establish processes for measuring governance adoption, stewardship performance, data quality, lineage coverage, and overall governance effectiveness.
• Develop reusable governance accelerators, reference architectures, delivery assets, and best practices based on real-world client engagements.
• Advise clients on data governance readiness for Microsoft 365 Copilot and broader enterprise AI initiatives, including metadata maturity, lineage, ownership, and governance controls.
• Collaborate across sales, engineering, delivery, security, and leadership teams while identifying opportunities to improve governance solutions and delivery practices.
• Facilitate difficult discussions around ownership, accountability, governance scope, and organizational change, helping stakeholders reach practical and sustainable outcomes.
• Travel to partner, customer, or other business locations as required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of experience delivering enterprise data, information management, or data governance solutions, with substantial recent experience focused on governance.
• Hands-on experience implementing Microsoft Purview, including Unified Catalog, Data Map, Data Estate Insights, business glossary, metadata management, and data lineage.
• Demonstrated experience establishing data stewardship programs involving executive sponsorship, ownership structures, accountability models, and adoption strategies.
• Proven experience leading client-facing consulting engagements, executive workshops, governance assessments, architecture discussions, and strategic advisory initiatives.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and Azure, along with an understanding of how data engineering and visualization architectures interact with governance.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise data governance frameworks, governance operating models, and governance reporting.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to tailor complex concepts to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, governance councils, data stewards, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify root causes behind governance challenges such as unclear ownership, weak adoption, ineffective incentives, or inadequate tooling.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with sales, delivery, engineering, security, and leadership stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous learning across data governance, analytics, cloud, and AI technologies.
• Strong ethical standards and disciplined adherence to data privacy, governance, compliance, and security requirements.
• Preferred experience with Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog, including governance across Azure-based lakehouse environments.
• Preferred experience supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot enablement, AI governance frameworks, or enterprise AI adoption.
• Familiarity with agentic systems such as Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio is an advantage.