Overview
As a Lead Solution Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you'll leverage a client-centric approach to understand our client's challenges and opportunities to deliver solutions and services that make transformative change and deliver high value business outcomes. You'll engage in solutioning and support on the most strategic opportunities, intervene in high-risk complex deliveries, and contribute to shape the strategic direction using data platforms, reporting, self-service analytics, real time intelligence and AI engineering. Using the power of modern data platforms, visualizations, advanced analytics, machine learning, IOT / Digital Twins and applied intelligence, we help clients gain business insights to optimize their operations, drive innovation, and make more empowered decisions.
Together we do what matters.
Responsibilities
- Lead solutioning and support on strategic opportunities; intervene in high-risk, complex deliveries; shape strategic direction using data platforms, reporting, self-service analytics, real time intelligence and AI engineering.
- Engage with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, shape deals and propositions, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts.
- Play a key role in Avanade's sales process by creating solutions that innovate, inspire and win new business; shape high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with subject matter experts.
- Coaching and mentoring junior colleagues and acting as a senior member of the Avanade technical community.
- Translate complex technical concepts into audience-appropriate language and value-based outcomes for senior business stakeholders, technology leaders, and internal sales teams.
- Engage in early conversations with clients and / or sales teams to support origination, deal qualification, requirements capture and solutioning; build strong client relationships to become a trusted advisor; participate in Deal Reviews and client presentations.
- Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape current and future offerings, accelerators, and background IP to support GTM activities.
- Drive evolution of best practices and methodologies for AI development, including data management, model training, fine-tuning, and deployment.
- Lead the development of data and analytics platforms, real-time intelligence and reporting solutions using Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure Data Services, Fabric and Databricks.
- Stay abreast of the latest advancements in Data & AI technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into solutions.
- Identify and execute cross-industry solutions-at-scale for the region, including Data Migration, Automation Migration, Visualization / Reporting and Core Data Platform Modernization and Governance.
- Drive measurable and sustained growth across the Data & AI Solution Area and integrate Data & AI into other Global Solution Areas, offerings and GTM initiatives.
- Support strong Managed Services and multi-year engagements for Data & AI.
Qualifications and Skills
Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft and Databricks; experience in Data, Applied Intelligence, Automation, IoT and related technologies.Awareness of channels to market and how to work in a Microsoft and partner ecosystem to ensure customer success; high energy to help clients understand the fast-moving AI industry, product and service evolution.Experience creating technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs involving modern AI concepts, with focus on scaling AI across enterprises.Deep understanding of data platforms, migration principles, regulatory frameworks and risk mitigation; ability to deliver impactful solutions quickly.Ability to create design artifacts and present them for approval at architectural forums attended by multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to executive levels.Strong knowledge of modern Data & AI capabilities (structured / unstructured data, streaming, IoT, AI, GenAI) and relevant analytics fields.Experience designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics) with attention to performance, security and reliability.Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients.Advanced degree in a quantitative field or equivalent combination of education and experience; experience in consultative / complex technical sales and deployment projects.About Avanade
Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Our 60,000 professionals in 26 countries innovate responsibly to make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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