Data Architect

Description

Who We Are :

Lowenstein Sandler is one of the most sophisticated law firms in the United States with over 375 lawyers and 300 business services professionals serving clients from offices in New York Palo Alto New Jersey Utah and Washington D.C. We recruit candidates who seek a collaborative entrepreneurial culture that prioritizes our clients our colleagues and the communities where we work and live. Committed to career development and to a diverse equitable and inclusive workplace the firm offers many programs and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We seek professionals for our business services group who share these values.

What You Will Do :

The Data Architect will be responsible for designing implementing and managing a robust enterprise data architecture for the firm with a particular focus on building and optimizing a data lakehouse using Microsoft Fabric with Delta Lake and Parquet file formats organized and governed through the Medallion Architecture (Bronze Silver and Gold layers). This platform will serve as the foundation for both analytics and machine learning initiatives providing seamless integration with Power BI for business intelligence while maintaining compatibility with advanced AI / ML platforms for future workloads. Leveraging all related Microsoft Fabric tools and Microsoft Purview for data governance the Data Architect will ensure high performance interoperability and availability of data across the firm.

Essential Job Requirements :

Data Architecture & Strategy :

• Lead the design and implementation of a modern data architecture to support the firms business and legal operations.
• Architect develop and maintain a secure scalable and high-performance data lakehouse built on Medallion Architecture principles leveraging the Delta Lake format for ACID transactions time travel and schema evolution.
• Implement the Bronze (raw ingestion) Silver (validated and standardized) and Gold (curated analytics-ready) data layers to support the lifecycle of data transformation and refinement.
• Design data storage strategies using Parquet file format optimized for analytical workloads and columnar data processing.
• Define strategies to ensure seamless integration with Power BI for analytics and reporting while maintaining Delta Lake compatibility to support advanced machine learning and AI use cases on compatible platforms.
• Establish data modeling standards practices and governance for structured and unstructured data.
• Define strategies for metadata management master data management and data quality frameworks.

Data Engineering & Integration :

Data Governance Security & Compliance :

Collaboration & Support :

Skills Knowledge and Abilities :

Office Location : Roseland NJ

Schedule : Full-Time Hybrid Monday-Friday (9 : 00 am 5 : 00 pm EST)

Amount of Travel Required : None

For candidates meeting the requirements the expected base salary is $150000 to $160000. The range provided is the salary that Lowenstein Sandler in good faith believes at the time of this posting that it is willing to pay for the advertised position. Exact compensation will be determined based on individual candidate qualifications and location. Our benefits package includes coverage options for medical dental vision prescription drug life insurance disability FSAs 401K and paid time off.

Disclaimers :

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities duties or responsibilities required by employee.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is not accepting resumes from search firms for this position. Regardless of past practice all resumes submitted by search firms are to be deemed the sole property of Lowenstein Sandler LLP and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Lowenstein Sandler LLP as a result of the referral.

Lowenstein Sandler LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and / or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race color gender sex age religion creed national origin ancestry citizenship marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability medical condition veteran status gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 150000 - 160000