Data & Solution Architect – Microsoft Fabric & Purview NZ110–130 per hour

Take ownership of data architecture and delivery on a government client engagement. You’ll build on an established Microsoft Fabric environment, shape its governance through Microsoft Purview, and turn critical enterprise data into trusted, production-ready data products.

• Review the existing Microsoft Fabric environment, OneLake structure and operational framework, identifying improvements to support delivery at scale.

• Define architectural standards, ingestion strategies and integration patterns, including Bronze, Silver and Gold Medallion Architecture layers.

• Design and deliver 1–2 production-ready data products, covering ETL/ELT pipelines, transformations, storage and semantic models.

• Design and implement Microsoft Purview architecture to support metadata management, automated scanning, data cataloguing, classification and end-to-end lineage.

• Establish sensitivity labelling, access policies and data protection controls aligned with enterprise compliance requirements.

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Data Architect designing enterprise-grade, cloud-native data solutions.

• Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience across OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Dataflows Gen2, Data Factory and Direct Lake.

• Strong Microsoft Purview architecture and implementation experience, including scanning, cataloguing, lineage and sensitivity classification.

• Deep understanding of Medallion Architecture, data modelling, Data Mesh and data product principles.

• Strong ETL/ELT engineering knowledge, including ingestion patterns, pipeline orchestration and metadata-driven frameworks.

Advantageous:

• Experience delivering data solutions within New Zealand Government or public sector agencies.

NZ110–130 per hour, negotiable depending on experience.

This full-time contract offers hybrid working and the opportunity to influence architecture, establish governance standards and deliver tangible data products within an already provisioned Microsoft Fabric platform.

Wellington, New Zealand – Hybrid.

Ready to put your Microsoft Fabric and Purview expertise into practice? Apply with your CV, highlighting your experience delivering enterprise data architecture, governance and production-ready data products.

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