Data Fabric Architect

Job Title: Data Fabric Architect

Job Location: Warren, NJ

Employment Type: Contract

Job Overview

We are hiring a Data Fabric Architect to lead enterprise-wide data architecture strategy enabling unified data access across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems. This role is responsible for designing scalable, secure, metadata-driven architectures supporting analytics, AI platforms, and real-time decision systems.

The architect will define standards for data virtualization, governance, interoperability, lineage, semantic modeling, and orchestration frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-scale Data Fabric architecture frameworks
• Define metadata-driven integration strategies
• Establish standards for data governance and lineage tracking
• Architect hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud data integration solutions
• Enable AI-ready data platforms supporting GenAI workloads
• Lead lakehouse modernization initiatives
• Implement semantic data layers for enterprise analytics
• Define reusable ingestion and transformation patterns
• Support platform scalability and performance optimization
• Collaborate with cloud architects and AI engineering teams

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture
• 5+ years designing large-scale distributed data platforms
• Strong experience designing enterprise Data Fabric solutions
• Expertise with:
• Azure Fabric / Databricks / Snowflake / Synapse
• Data virtualization technologies
• Metadata-driven architectures
• Experience designing data governance frameworks
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns
• Experience supporting AI / ML data platforms
• Strong stakeholder communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline