Azure Fabric Architect
- EXL
- 10 - 20 years
- Pune
- 11 hours ago
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Job Description
Role: Azure / Microsoft Fabric Architect
Location: Pune / Gurgaon / Bangalore
Work Mode: Hybrid
About EXL
EXL is a leading global analytics and digital solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and accelerate growth. With expertise across industries such as insurance, healthcare, banking, financial services, and logistics, EXL leverages advanced analytics, AI, digital transformation, and domain knowledge to deliver innovative solutions. Headquartered in New York, EXL operates in more than 50 offices worldwide, combining deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to help organisations enhance customer experience, optimise operations, and drive sustainable value.
About the Role
We are seeking an Azure/Microsoft Fabric Architect with a strong Data Engineering foundation to design and implement Fabric-first lakehouse/warehouse architectures. The role requires a customer-centric approach, designing customised solutions that align with business goals, governance needs, and scalable delivery.
Key Role & Responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end solutions using Microsoft Fabric: OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Pipelines, Notebooks, Spark, and semantic modelling.
- Design ingestion patterns (batch/near real-time), transformation layers, and consumption strategies (Power BI / SQL endpoints).
- Establish governance and compliance design (catalogue, lineage, access, sensitivity labels) with enterprise controls.
- Define standards for workspace strategy, domain-aligned data products, naming conventions, and reusable templates.
- Implement CI/CD and DevOps practices for Fabric artefacts; define release governance and environment strategy.
- Optimise for performance and cost: capacity planning, workload management, partitioning strategies, monitoring and operational dashboards.
- Conduct customer discovery workshops; create solution options and implementation roadmaps; ensure outcomes align to customer priorities.
- Lead and mentor engineers; review designs; ensure high-quality, maintainable, secure implementations.
Must Have
- 10+ years overall experience with a strong Data Engineering background (pipelines, modelling, production operations).
- 3+ years hands-on experience delivering analytics platforms on Azure, with Microsoft Fabric implementation exposure.
- Strong understanding of lakehouse/warehouse patterns, dimensional modelling, and data quality practices.
- Proficiency with SQL and at least one of Python/Spark notebooks for engineering patterns.
- Strong stakeholder management and customer-facing consulting skills.
Good to Have
- Experience with governance tooling (e.g., Microsoft Purview) and enterprise data governance programmes.
- Experience with ADF/Synapse/Databricks migrations to Fabric; capacity planning and FinOps practices.
- Microsoft certifications in data/analytics (Azure Data Engineer, Fabric-related credentials).
Education
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
Key Skills: Microsoft Azure, MS Fabric, OneLake, Lakehouse, Fabric Data Pipelines, Spark, Data Modelling, Governance, Azure Ecosystem
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Technical ArchitectEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: EXLLocation(s): Pune
Keyskills: Pyspark Azure Microsoft Fabric MS Fabric Spark
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