• Architect end-to-end data platforms on Azure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and future-proof design • Lead design reviews and architectural decisions for large or complex client data projects • Facilitate the design of enterprise data models through the translation of business processes to model-oriented designs. • Own the creation and governance of conceptual, logical, and physical data models ensuring alignment across business domains. • Define and enforce modeling standards, naming conventions, and architectural guardrails across client projects. • Serve as the technical authority in client delivery, ensuring architectural decisions are followed through implementation with appropriate code reviews and governance. • Apply star-schema patterns to deploy iterative Kimball best practices to data warehouse design • Mentor and coach junior engineers on advanced Azure services, performance tuning, and cloud-native patterns • Drive cloud cost optimization strategies, ensuring clients use the right services at the right scale. • Lead client advisory on data platform modernization, migration strategies (e.g., on-prem to Azure), and data architecture maturity • Contribute to thought leadership, such as blog posts, webinars, or speaking engagements on Azure data topics • Manage data security, privacy, and compliance (RBAC, encryption, sensitive data masking) across Azure services • Document data engineering solutions and adhere to Emergent Software’s delivery standards and Agile practices.