Advisory Azure Data Architect

About EdgeX

EdgeX builds infrastructure-free IoT systems for real-time asset tracking and environmental monitoring, primarily in healthcare and industrial environments. Our sensors and platform operate entirely independent of facility IT, enabling instant deployment and insights. As part of our platform evolution, we have implemented Microsoft Azure Data Explorer (ADX) to enhance scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability across our data ecosystem.

Role

We are seeking an Advisory Azure Data Architect with deep expertise in IoT, time-series data, and observability platforms to provide expert oversight and validation as we transition more services and reporting workloads to ADX. This is a part-time, advisory engagement - ideal for a seasoned architect who can dedicate a few hours per week to help ensure that our ADX implementation, data migration strategy, and observability stack are aligned with best practices for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor to our engineering and infrastructure teams as we integrate additional systems and reports with ADX.

• Review and validate existing ADX configurations, ingestion pipelines, and data models.

• Provide guidance on data migration strategies, retention policies, and performance optimization.

• Ensure proper observability and monitoring are in place using tools such as Datadog, Azure Monitor, and related platforms.

• Offer best practices for managing and scaling telemetry and IoT data workloads.

• Participate in periodic architecture reviews and provide actionable feedback to technical leadership.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience designing and optimizing Azure Data Explorer (ADX) environments at scale.

• Strong background in IoT, time-series data, and streaming architectures.

• Hands-on familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Azure Monitor, Grafana, or Prometheus.

• Understanding of related Azure services (Event Hubs, IoT Hub, Data Factory, Synapse, Log Analytics).

• Excellent communication and advisory skills; able to collaborate effectively with both technical and leadership teams.

Prior consulting or fractional advisory experience preferred.

Engagement Details

• Part-time, advisory role (approx. 2-5 hours per week).

• Flexible schedule; remote candidates welcome.

• Focused on mid-to-late project validation and optimization, not initial architecture design.