We are looking for Senior Data Architect for an international project in Zurich. As a Senior Data Architect, you will provide hands-on technical leadership defining and evolving the enterprise data architecture for analytical and operational use cases, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. You will partner with data engineering, analytics, security and platform teams to design scalable, governed and cost efficient solutions—covering ingestion, transformation, storage, semantic modeling and consumption—ensuring data is trusted, secure and accessible. This role is purely technical and requires strong engineering and architecture depth.

EU candidates are welcome to apply. Candidates need to be based in Zurich/Europe and be willing to relocate to Zurich.

This position is open for contractors. Candidates need to be fluent in English.

Tasks and responsibilities:
- Define target data architecture, standards and reference patterns for Azure and Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse, semantic models, data products);
- Design end-to-end data solutions: ingestion,



orchestration, transformation, storage and serving layers, aligning with business and regulatory requirements;
- Own conceptual, logical and physical data models; drive canonical models, dimensional models and domain-oriented data products;
- Establish governance-by-design: data classification, lineage, quality controls, metadata management and stewardship processes;
- Define security and access patterns (RBAC/ABAC), encryption and network isolation for data platforms, partnering with IAM and security teams;
- Guide implementation choices across Azure data services and Fabric capabilities, balancing performance, cost, resiliency and operability;
- Collaborate with the rest of the Engineering team to define pipelines, testing strategies, CI/CD and release governance for data assets;
- Drive adoption of best practices for semantic modeling and BI consumption (e.g., Power BI semantic models), e

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