💻 🚀 Data Architect – Forward Deployed Engineer (Azure) - H1B Visa Sponsorship
📋 Job Description
Virtusa is seeking a highly hands-on Data Architect with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) capability to solve complex enterprise data problems within a Microsoft Azure environment.
This is not a purely conceptual architecture position. You’ll work directly with business, product, data, and engineering stakeholders to understand ambiguous problems, investigate existing systems and data, design appropriate solutions, and remain closely involved through implementation and production deployment.
The ideal candidate combines enterprise-level architecture expertise with strong hands-on engineering capabilities. 💻
📍 Hartford, CT / Minneapolis, MN (Onsite) | 💼 Contract · C2C | 💷 $70/hr | ✈️ H1B Visa Sponsorship | ☁️ Microsoft Azure
🎯 Key Responsibilities
As a Data Architect – FDE, you’ll own technical outcomes from problem discovery through production implementation. Your key duties include:
- 🤝 Work directly with business and technical stakeholders to understand complex data and technology problems
- 🧩 Translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable architecture and engineering solutions
- 🔍 Understand existing data ecosystems, applications, integrations, data flows, and constraints
- 🏗️ Define target-state architectures for enterprise data solutions
- ☁️ Architect scalable solutions using Azure Databricks, ADLS, ADF, Microsoft Fabric/Synapse, and related Azure technologies
- 🌊 Define Lakehouse, Delta Lake, batch, streaming, and analytical architecture patterns
- 💻 Remain hands-on with Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and data engineering
- ⚡ Develop or guide rapid prototypes to validate architecture decisions
- 🔗 Define ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, API, and integration patterns
- 🧠 Architect solutions spanning data platforms, APIs, applications, analytics, and AI/ML consumers
- 🗂️ Define logical and physical data models
- 🛡️ Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, security, governance, and observability
- 📈 Design for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and cost optimization
- 🔎 Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews
- 🧯 Troubleshoot complex cross-platform technical issues
- 👨🏫 Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance to Data Engineers and FDE teams
- 🤝 Partner with AI/ML, DevOps, security, product, and application engineering teams
- 🎯 Own technical outcomes from problem discovery through production implementation
✅ What We Are Looking For
We’re looking for a hands-on architect ready to build, not just diagram. You will need:
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 📅 10+ years of progressive Data Engineering / Data Architecture experience
- ☁️ Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience
- 🧱 Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks
- 🐍 Strong Python and PySpark skills
- 🗄️ Advanced SQL
- 💾 ADLS Gen2
- 🔄 Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- 🏞️ Lakehouse and Delta Lake architecture
- 📐 Data modeling
- ⚙️ ETL/ELT and distributed data processing
- 🔌 API and enterprise integration architecture
- 🚀 CI/CD and modern engineering practices
- 🔒 Data security, governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality
- 🏢 Experience architecting enterprise-scale data platforms
- 🗣️ Strong stakeholder-facing communication and technical leadership
- 🔀 Ability to move between architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem solving
Preferred Qualifications (Bonus Points!)
- 🧵 Experience with Microsoft Fabric
- ⚡ Experience with Azure Synapse
- 📚 Experience with Unity Catalog
- 📡 Experience with Event Hubs / Kafka
- ☸️ Experience with AKS / Kubernetes
- 🏗️ Experience with Terraform / IaC
- 🤖 Exposure to Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry
- 🏥 Healthcare data / platform experience
- 💼 Consulting, customer-facing engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering experience
🖥️ Working Conditions
- 📍 Onsite in Hartford, CT or Minneapolis, MN
- ⏱️ Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines
- 🆘 Occasional requirement to provide urgent technical support and troubleshooting
- 📚 Continuous learning and professional development to keep pace with evolving technologies
✈️ Visa Sponsorship Details
🟢 This role supports H1B visa sponsorship (C2C). Qualified international candidates are warmly encouraged to apply.
The employer will support your H1B transfer / sponsorship and guide you through the process. Whether you currently hold a visa or anticipate needing sponsorship, you are encouraged to apply.
📝 Please confirm your current visa type and expiry date when submitting your application.
💷 Rate & Engagement
🕘 Contract · Corp-to-Corp (C2C)
📍 Onsite — Hartford, CT or Minneapolis, MN
✈️ H1B visa sponsorship available
🎁 What This Role Offers You
Here’s what you’ll get:
- 💷 Competitive C2C rate — $70/hr
- ✈️ H1B visa sponsorship — full support through the process
- ☁️ Modern Azure tech stack — Databricks, Fabric/Synapse, ADF, Delta Lake, and more
- 🏗️ True architecture ownership — from discovery through production
- 🤝 Collaborative, high-impact FDE team culture
- 📈 Career development — continuous learning and professional growth
📩 How to Apply
Ready to architect the future? Apply today.
Submit your application via TheHireBuddy.Co. Please include your CV, portfolio/GitHub profile, and a cover letter detailing your relevant Azure data engineering and architecture experience. 🔍
✈️ Visa sponsorship candidates: please include your current visa type and expiry date in your application. We look forward to building something great together!