Fabric Platform Data Architect

Job Description This is a remote position. Thinkgrid Labs is at the forefront of innovation and technology. Our expert team of software engineers, architects, and UI/UX designers specialises in crafting bespoke web, mobile, cloud applications, data platforms, along with AI solutions and intelligent bots. Thinkgrid Labs is expanding our data practice to stand up Microsoft Fabric for a US health insurer. You'll architect the platform foundation, set governance guardrails, and ensure the environment is secure, compliant, cost-efficient, and usable for everyone from execs to engineers. Job Title: Fabric Platform Architect Location: Remote Working Hours: 2 PM IST to 11 PM IST Experience Required: 812 years overall; 3+ years in Azure data platform governance/Fabric admin Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, or Business. Preferred certifications: DP-600, DP-500, AZ-305, SC-100/SC-300. Who are you - Platform Architecture (Fabric or Equivalent): You've designed multi-tenant or multi-domain lakehouse platforms (e.g., Fabric, Databricks + ADLS/Delta, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, AWS Glue/Lake Formation, GCP BigQuery), including workspace/project topology, environment isolation, and capacity planning. - Fabric Authority: Deep, hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric architecturetenants, domains, capacity groups, workspaces, OneLake, Lakehouse/Warehouse, Real-Time Analytics. - Governance-First: You design pragmatic guardrails for rights/roles/budgets/access; you operationalise RLS/CLS and data domains at scale. - Catalogue & Lineage Champion: Comfortable configuring Microsoft Purviewcollections, glossary, scanners, policies, and lineage end-to-end. - Security & Compliance Mindset: Strong Entra ID/Azure IAM; you bake in HIPAA/PII controls, auditing, and least privilege by default. - Cost-Savvy Operator: Capacity planning, workloads, reserved capacity, and FinOps reporting come naturally. - Stakeholder Communicator: Equally at home in steering committees with execs and deep dives with engineers. (We value client-facing clarity and excellent written/verbal communication.) What you will be doing - Platform Foundation (Owner): Design and configure Fabric tenants, domains, capacity groups, and workspaces; define dev/test/prod environment strategy and workspace topology. - Governance & Access: Establish RBAC models, security groups, RLS/CLS patterns, budgeting guardrails, naming/tags, and approval workflows. - Catalogue, Glossary & Lineage: Stand up Purview collections; implement glossary governance, scanner rules, sensitivity labels, and end-to-end lineage across Fabric artefacts. - Security, Privacy & Audit: Map HIPAA/PHI controls; integrate with Entra, Azure Policy, and Defender for Cloud; enable audit logs to be sent to Log Analytics and configured for retention; drive periodic access reviews. - Cost Management & FinOps: Right-size capacity, monitor usage, forecast spend, set budgets/alerts, and recommend workload isolation or reservations to optimise TCO. - CI/CD & Change Control: Enable source control (Git mode), deployment pipelines, and release promotion; define SOW-aligned change processes and acceptance criteria for platform changes. - Operational Excellence: Define SLOs/alerts/runbooks, backup/DR and region strategy; lead incident/RCAs; maintain RAID and platform roadmaps. - Enablement & Communication: Run discovery/architecture reviews, steering/QBRs, and training for analysts/engineering teams; produce clear docs, playbooks, and decision logs. Requirements - Microsoft Fabric administration (tenancy, domains, capacities, workspaces, OneLake) - Microsoft Purview (catalogue, glossary, scans, policies, lineage) - Azure IAM/Entra ID (RBAC, conditional access), RLS/CLS patterns - Cost management and FinOps awareness (capacity planning, budgets, alerts) - Excellent stakeholder communication (execs, security, data engineering) Benefits - 5-day work week - 100% remote setup with flexible work culture and international exposure - Opportunity to work on mission-critical healthcare projects impacting providers and patients globally