Senior Solutions Architect - Microsoft Fabric

Perficient’s Microsoft Cloud Business Unit is investing heavily in Microsoft Fabric services and governance offerings. We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect – Microsoft Fabric to accelerate this vision.

Job Overview:

As the senior authority for Fabric, you will:

• Define the strategic roadmap for Fabric-based data-platform services, reusable IP, and delivery accelerators.
• Lead enterprise engagements that span capacity migration (P- to F-capacities), Purview-driven data-governance, and tenant-wide adoption of Fabric experiences.
• Partner with sales, alliances, and Microsoft field teams to shape pursuits, craft SOWs, and present solution visions to C-level and technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and scale a geographically distributed team of architects, engineers, and analysts while championing best practices.

You will collaborate with Fortune 500 clients who are modernizing mission-critical analytics platforms—addressing performance, cost, and governance challenges—while building out Perficient’s Fabric center of excellence.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Own Fabric practice architecture
  • Author the reference architecture, standards, and reusable templates for Fabric Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Real-Time Analytics, and Power BI semantic layers.
  • Define OneLake organization patterns, workspace taxonomy, and naming conventions that scale across business units.
• Establish tenant-level governance
  • Implement capacity planning (P-> F migration strategy, chargeback models, cost-optimization telemetry).
  • Integrate Microsoft Purview for lineage capture, sensitivity labeling, RBAC, and policy-based access control.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code automation to enforce standards.
• Drive solution discovery and design
  • Lead assessment workshops to capture current-state, pain points, and capability gaps.
  • Produce detailed architecture diagrams, epics, stories, and release plans aligned to phased roadmaps.
• Delivery leadership
  • Guide multiple Agile squads through sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative releases.
  • Remove technical impediments, manage risks, and ensure quality via design reviews and architecture governance boards.
• Presales & alliance collaboration
  • Create POVs, prototypes, and demos showcasing Fabric governance accelerators.
  • Develop level-of-effort estimates, staffing models, and SOW language for new pursuits.
  • Deliver client-facing presentations jointly with Microsoft GTM teams; participate in executive briefings and industry events.
• Thought leadership & mentoring
  • Publish blogs, whitepapers, and conference talks on Fabric best practices and governance trends.
  • Coach architects, engineers, and data analysts; establish training paths and internal “Fabric Guild” meetups.
• Continuous improvement
  • Track Microsoft roadmap, preview features, and funding programs—adjusting Perficient offerings accordingly.
  • Capture project lessons learned to refine IP, templates, and engagement playbooks.

• 10–15 years architecting enterprise data-analytics solutions; 5 + years delivering Azure-based modern data platforms.
• Deep, hands-on mastery of Microsoft Fabric, including:
  • Data Engineering (Lakehouse / Delta tables, notebooks, Dataflows Gen2)
  • Data Factory (ETL / ELT pipelines, ADF-to-Fabric migrations)
  • Data Warehouse (T-SQL, performance tuning, high-concurrency workloads)
  • Real-Time Analytics (KQL databases, Data Activator, streaming pipelines)
  • Power BI (semantic modeling, DirectLake, Composite models, deployment pipelines)
• Proven track record designing and implementing tenant-level governance frameworks: workspace sprawl control, capacity management, cost show-back, security, and Purview-based lineage.
• Successful leadership of at least 5 full-lifecycle Fabric/Synapse/Databricks modern-data-platform programs (discover → design → implement → optimize).
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