Engagement Lead / Principal Architect

**🚀 We're Hiring: Engagement Lead / Principal Architect** **📍 New York, NY · Hybrid** **💼 W2** **🧰 Experience: 10+ yrs** 🛠️ Skills: Azure, SQL Server, Databricks We're seeking a senior Principal Data Architecture Engagement Lead to lead a strategic data-transformation and target-state architecture engagement for a major banking client. This role combines engagement leadership, enterprise data architecture, governance and executive stakeholder management. The successful candidate will be accountable for establishing the delivery framework, managing r… **Roles & Responsibilities:** Secure read-only access to SQL Server system metadata and stand up the approved analysis workspace and repository within the first two weeks; this gate governs the whole plan. Agree the RACI, standards, templates and working cadence with Mizuho, and lock the fortnightly delivery-leadership review and the escalation path into the architecture board. Map stakeholders and secure a single named coordination point per business domain (a stated dependency of the proposal, and the primary schedule risk). Own the risk, issue and dependency log; escalate stakeholder-availability slippage early rather than absorbing it into float. Chair the DACI forum for contested and multi-domain items