Principal Data Architect
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Principal Data Architect modernizing a major US mortgage lender’s finance data platform with Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake. Owning architecture, CDC pipelines, governed BI semantics, and hands-on delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end target architecture spanning CDC replication, lakehouse landing (Fabric/OneLake), and a layered cloud data warehouse on Snowflake
- Author and maintain architecture decision records covering transformation mechanism, CDC/load strategy, semantic-model storage mode, warehouse isolation, and cross-platform interoperability
- Design the curated data layer and dimensional model
- Recompute source-system runtime-calculated values and conform key-value dimension structures into standard reporting attributes
- Design the strategy for a single certified BI semantic model with governed, versioned metric definitions
- Work hands-on inside the codebase alongside the development team through design and build
- Lead technical discovery with client architecture, security, and platform teams
- Resolve interoperability and network/identity design questions
- Own architecture quality gates, including design validation, baseline lock, and cutover readiness
- Produce evidence for client stakeholder sign-off
- Mentor the development team on transformation patterns, incremental materialization, and reconciliation/data-quality design
Requirements:
- Solid experience in data architecture, including hands-on delivery on enterprise data platform modernization programs
- Proven experience architecting cloud data platforms on Snowflake, including layered raw/staging/curated models and incremental transformation patterns
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric/OneLake, or a comparable lakehouse platform, including cross-platform interoperability between a lakehouse and a cloud data warehouse
- Experience architecting change-data-capture (CDC) based replication pipelines from a relational source into a cloud platform
- Experience designing governed, certified BI semantic layers (Power BI or equivalent) consumed by multiple reporting tools
- Strong command of data governance fundamentals: classification, masking, row-level access, lineage
- Fluent English (C1)
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or another ERP as a source system for financial/GL reporting (nice to have)
- Experience in mortgage, lending, or broader financial-services data platforms (nice to have)
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development toolchains inside a governed software development lifecycle (nice to have)
Benefits:
- Health and dental insurance
- Meal and food allowance
- Childcare assistance
- Extended paternity leave
- Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass
- Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR)
- Life insurance
- Continuous learning platform (CI&T University)
- Discount club
- Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
- Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
- Partnerships with online learning platforms
- Language learning platform
- Health and Well-being team, inclusion specialists, and affinity groups
- Support and accommodations for people with disabilities during the selection process
















