Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect freelance opportunity for a long-term remote project.Key details: Role: Senior Data Architect Start: ASAPDuration: 12 months, long-term potentialCapacity: Full-timeWorking model: Fully remoteLocation: EU / CIS / Balkans Rate: up to USD 45–50/hourThe client is looking for someone with strong enterprise Azure Data Architecture experience, specifically designing the data layer supporting GenAI, RAG or Agentic AI applications.This is not primarily a hands-on AI agent / RAG developer role. The focus is on data architecture: how enterprise data and knowledge are ingested, prepared, stored, governed, indexed, and made available for retrieval and AI consumption.Must-have experience: Azure Cosmos DB Real project experience designing data architecture for GenAI / RAG / Agentic AI applicationsAI-ready data architectureAzure Synapse AnalyticsAzure DatabricksAzure SQL MI / SQL Server / T-SQLAzure Data Lake / Lakehouse architectureAzure FunctionsArchitecture ownership, data modeling, ingestion, and platform modernizationStructured and unstructured data Metadata / configuration-driven ingestion and scalable data-platform designWould you be interested and available? GenAI / RAG / Agentic AI data architecture project examples Azure Synapse / Databricks / Azure Data Lake / Azure SQL experience Experience with structured and unstructured data Metadata/configuration-driven ingestion experience