About the Role
We are seeking a Manager – Data Architect to join our AI & Data practice, focused on designing and delivering agentic, intelligent, and data-driven solutions built on Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI services. The ideal candidate brings strong technical leadership, hands-on architecture experience, and the ability to lead client pursuits, solution design, and delivery for complex AI and data transformation programs.
Responsibilities
- Provide architecture leadership and subject-matter expertise across client engagements focused on Agentic AI, Microsoft Fabric, and advanced analytics
- Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of intelligent systems that leverage AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise data platforms
- Define solution architectures and roadmaps aligned to business outcomes, balancing cost, risk, scalability, security, and performance
- Design and oversee Microsoft Fabric–based architectures, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Real‑Time Analytics, Data Factory, and Semantic Models
- Architect and govern agentic AI solutions, including multi-agent orchestration and workflows, integration with enterprise data, APIs, and applications, and human‑in‑the‑loop patterns, guardrails, and observability
- Collaborate closely with clients to translate business use cases into AI‑enabled products, incorporating data privacy, sovereignty, and regulatory requirements, security, identity, and access controls, and business continuity and operational resilience
- Lead technical solutioning for pursuits, proposals, and client presentations
- Establish and promote architecture standards, reusable assets, reference architectures, and accelerators
- Ensure alignment with architecture governance, technology policies, and compliance requirements
- Work with Microsoft and ecosystem partners to assess platforms, tools, and delivery models
- Provide architectural direction across multiple concurrent projects, building consensus and resolving complex technical challenges
- Mentor architects and engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and experimentation
- Stay current with industry trends in Agentic AI, generative AI, analytics platforms, and cloud technologies, and drive their responsible adoption
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, or a related field
- Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise data and AI architectures
- Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services
- Experience with data modeling, data engineering, and analytics architectures
- Solid knowledge of Azure Cloud, including security and identity concepts
- Experience integrating AI/ML or GenAI solutions into enterprise platforms
- Exposure to architecture governance, standards, and delivery leadership
Skills
- Strong client‑facing skills with the ability to build trusted advisory relationships
- Proven ability to lead architecture decisions in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments
- Deep understanding of modern data platforms and AI system design
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences
- Experience driving architecture governance, standards, and best practices
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Passion for AI innovation, technical quality, and continuous learning
- Experience with Agentic AI patterns, orchestration frameworks, or autonomous workflows
- Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, Copilot experiences, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures
- Experience with CI/CD, MLOps, or DataOps in cloud environments
- Knowledge of real‑time analytics, event‑driven architectures, and streaming data
- Experience with data migration, modernization, or legacy platform transformation
- Interest in data visualization, semantic modeling, and business intelligence
Location
- Vancouver
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $110000 to $160000
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support your career growth, well‑being, and long‑term success
- Opportunities to work on cutting‑edge AI and data initiatives
- Support and coaching from senior leaders and industry experts
- Continuous learning and certification opportunities
- A collaborative, inclusive, and flexible work environment
About the Company
- EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
- Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
- Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
Equal Opportunity
- Inclusive culture
