Data Architect – FDE| H1B
Quick facts
- Pay
- $70/hr
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Hartford / Minneapolis, CT / MN
- Skills
- Python, SQL, Kubernetes
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
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Job description
Hello, We have a new requirement with Virtusa for a Data Architect – FDE. Please review the details below and start sourcing qualified candidates.
Job Title: Data Architect – FDE
Client: Virtusa
Location: Hartford, CT / Minneapolis, MN – Onsite
Experience: 12+ Years
Employment Type: Contract
Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure
Visa: H1B – C2C
Rate: $70/hr
About the Role
We are looking for a highly hands-on Data Architect with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) capabilities to solve complex enterprise data problems within a Microsoft Azure environment. This is not a purely conceptual architecture position. The candidate will work directly with business, product, data, and engineering stakeholders to understand complex and sometimes ambiguous problems, investigate existing systems and data, design appropriate solutions, and remain closely involved through implementation and production deployment. The ideal candidate should combine enterprise-level architecture expertise with strong hands-on engineering capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with business and technical stakeholders to understand complex data and technology problems.
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable architecture and engineering solutions.
- Understand existing data ecosystems, applications, integrations, data flows, and constraints.
- Define target-state architectures for enterprise data solutions.
- Architect scalable solutions using Azure Databricks, ADLS, ADF, Microsoft Fabric/Synapse, and related Azure technologies.
- Define Lakehouse, Delta Lake, batch, streaming, and analytical architecture patterns.
- Remain hands-on with Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, and data engineering.
- Develop or guide rapid prototypes to validate architecture decisions.
- Define ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, API, and integration patterns.
- Architect solutions spanning data platforms, APIs, applications, analytics, and AI/ML consumers.
- Define logical and physical data models.
- Establish standards for data quality, metadata, lineage, security, governance, and observability.
- Design for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and cost optimization.
- Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Troubleshoot complex cross-platform technical issues.
- Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance to Data Engineers and FDE teams.
- Partner with AI/ML, DevOps, security, product, and application engineering teams.
- Own technical outcomes from problem discovery through production implementation.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive Data Engineering/Data Architecture experience.
- Strong Microsoft Azure architecture experience.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks.
- Strong Python and PySpark skills.
- Advanced SQL.
- ADLS Gen2.
- Azure Data Factory (ADF).
- Lakehouse and Delta Lake architecture.
- Data modeling.
- ETL/ELT and distributed data processing.
- API and enterprise integration architecture.
- CI/CD and modern engineering practices.
- Data security, governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale data platforms.
- Strong stakeholder-facing communication and technical leadership.
- Ability to move between architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem solving.
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Fabric.
- Azure Synapse.
- Unity Catalog.
- Event Hubs/Kafka.
- AKS/Kubernetes.
- Terraform/IaC.
- Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry exposure.
- Healthcare data/platform experience.
- Consulting, customer-facing engineering, or Forward Deployed Engineering experience.
Important Submission Guidelines
- Rate: $70/hr C2C.
- Candidate must be comfortable working onsite in Hartford, CT or Minneapolis, MN.
- Please prioritize candidates who are hands-on architects and can contribute directly to engineering and implementation.
- Purely conceptual/enterprise architecture profiles without strong hands-on Azure data engineering experience will not be a good fit.
- Strong experience with Azure Databricks, Python, PySpark, SQL, ADLS Gen2, ADF, Lakehouse, and Delta Lake is required.
- Please ensure candidates closely match the technical requirements before submission.
Visa sponsorship record: Inabia Software and Consulting Inc
Sponsors actively| Fiscal year | H-1B LCAs | USCIS approvals | USCIS denials | PERM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 9 | 13 | 0 | — |
| FY2025 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 4 | 4 | 1 | — |
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Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Database Architects (SOC 15-1243).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
- Green card (EB-2 / EB-3 via PERM)
Filed 2 PERM labor certifications: they have a track record of sponsoring permanent residence.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level II (qualified)Database Architects · Connecticut (state median of areas). Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $118,258 | ~15% |
| Level II | $135,158 | ~31% |
| Level III | $151,414 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $167,929 | ~61% |
This job pays $145,600 a year (converted from an hourly rate, 2,080 hours) — that's Level II (qualified). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level II registration gets 2 entries; estimated selection chance about 31%.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.