Lead Azure Architect

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Lead Azure Architect   Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite is the one who empowers imagination with intelligence. Fractal has been featured as a Great Place to Work by The Economic Times in partnership with the Great Place to Work® Institute and recognized as a "Cool Vendor" and a "Vendor to Watch" by Gartner. Please visit Fractal | Intelligence for Imagination for more information about Fractal   Location : Dallas, Texas (Client onsite)  Note:  This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship currently.   Role Overview: Fractal is seeking an experienced Lead Azure Architect with experience in Azure core technologies - Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Cosmos, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Azure HDInsight, Azure Databricks, SQL data warehouse (Synapse) and LLMs.  Key Responsibilities: Translate functional requirements into technical design  Interact with clients and internal stakeholders to understand the data and platform requirements in detail and determine core Azure services needed to fulfil the technical design  Architect on Azure platform to meet client specific functional and non-functional requirements  Evaluate the current technology landscape and recommend a forward-looking, short, and long-term technology strategic vision.  Participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content, and new reference architectures. Preparing and answering RFPs, RFIs and RFQs  Oversee design and solution architecture to ensure standards are followed, codebase is modular and scalable  Estimate effort using a parametric estimation model and bring all stakeholders on-board about the overall schedule, and dependencies  Design, Develop and Deliver data integration interfaces in ADF and Azure Databricks  Design, Develop and Deliver data provisioning interfaces to fulfil consumption needs  Deliver data models on Azure platform, it could be on Azure Cosmos, SQL DW / Synapse or SQL  Advise clients on ML Engineering and deploying ML Ops at Scale on AKS  Automate core activities to minimize the delivery lead times and improve the overall quality Optimize platform cost by selecting right platform services and architecting the solution in a cost-effective manner  Deploy Azure DevOps and CI CD processes  Deploy logging and monitoring across the different integration points for critical alerts   Required Experience: 10+ years of software development…