Fabric Platform Architect (Remote)

Microsoft Fabric for a US health insurer

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Who are you

• 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.

Must-have skills

• 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