For a client, we are seeking a highly skilled Principal Data Domain Architect. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Data Strategy Development: Define and lead the organization's data architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and goals. Develop a technical roadmap to ensure the target architecture aligns with design principles.
• Data Architecture Design & Governance: Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing data architecture frameworks. Implement governance processes to ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Data Modeling & Integration: Lead the design of physical data models, aligned with the conceptual and logical models. Ensure seamless integration of data from multiple sources, enabling accurate, real-time decision-making and analytics.
• Technology Evaluation & Innovation: Implement new technologies and lead initiatives to adopt these technologies to improve data capabilities.
• Mentoring & Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to data architects, engineers, and modelers. Mentor team members to develop their skills and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in defining data architecture standards, driving alignment across different departments, including data engineering, analytics, and application development teams.
• Strategic Leadership: Drive business transformation through data, shaping the organization's future by ensuring that its data assets are fully optimized to support long-term growth and innovation.

Qualifications and Experience:

• University degree or equivalent.
• Several years of experience as a data architect practitioner in Azure's full suite of services, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, etc.
• Passionate about defining and designing end-to-end scalable data solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and industry standards.
• Ability to think and act strategically, operate tactically, and implement change effectively.
• Strong focus on soft skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally to different hierarchies in the organization.
• Structured, fact-based approach with the ability to defend points of view to challenging stakeholders.
• Proactive and able to connect with people throughout a large and complex landscape.
• Excellent vulgarization skills to adapt communication to various stakeholder levels.