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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 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 operations, drive innovation, and make more empowered decisions.
Together we do what matters.
Responsibilities
- Lead solution architecture and engage on strategic opportunities, shaping high-level design and roadmaps for data platforms, reporting, real-time intelligence and AI engineering.
- Provide technical leadership on client projects, collaborating with delivery teams and client stakeholders to drive architectural decisions, plans, and design artifacts.
- Contribute to sales by shaping proposals, estimates, and contractual details in collaboration with other subject matter experts.
- Mentor and coach more junior colleagues and contribute to Avanade's technical community.
- Translate complex technical concepts into audience-appropriate language for senior business stakeholders and internal sales teams.
- Engage early with clients and sales to support origination, requirements capture, and solutioning, building strong client relationships as a trusted advisor.
- Drive 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 current with AI technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into solutions.
- Identify cross-industry at-scale solutions for your region, including Data Migration, Automation Migration, Visualization / Reporting, and Data Platform Modernization and Governance.
- Support multi-year engagements and managed services for Data & AI initiatives.
Qualifications
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 with the ability to help clients understand the fast-moving AI industry, product and service evolution.Experience creating technical visions, architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs involving AI concepts, particularly focused on scaling AI across enterprises.Understanding of data platform migration principles, regulatory frameworks and how to address risk while delivering impactful solutions.Ability to create design artifacts and present them for architectural forums with multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to C-level client executives.Deep understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities (structured / unstructured data, streaming, IoT, AI, GenAI, and related analytics).Experience designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using approaches such as Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc., with emphasis on performance, security, and reliability.Comfort with engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients.About You
You are passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients.An advanced degree in a quantitative field (computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning) or an equivalent combination of education and experience.Proven success in consultative / complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and / or support of highly distributed applications; extensive experience architecting cloud data workloads in large enterprise accounts.Strong communication skills with the ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence remote teams and stakeholders.Collaborative, consultative, and relationship-building mindset.Resilient, adaptable, and flexible; humble leadership; adept negotiator.What You'll Do
As an architect assigned to a client project, provide technical leadership, shape deals and propositions, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts.Contribute to 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.Mentor and coach junior colleagues across the organization.Translate complex technical concepts into audience-appropriate language for senior stakeholders and internal teams.Engage early with clients and sales to support origination, requirements capture, and solutioning; build strong client relationships as a trusted advisor; participate in deal reviews and client negotiations.Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape offerings, accelerators, and IP to support GTM activities.Advance best practices for AI development, including data management, model training, fine-tuning, and deployment.Lead development of data and analytics platforms, real-time intelligence, and reporting solutions using Python, SQL, Azure Data Services, Fabric and Databricks.Stay abreast of AI advancements and incorporate relevant innovations.Identify cross-industry solutions at scale for your region and drive initiatives in data migration, automation migration, visualization / reporting, and data governance.Drive growth across the Data & AI Solution Area and align with other Global Solution Areas and GTM initiatives.Learn More
Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services across the Microsoft ecosystem. We are a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft with a global footprint and strong partnerships. Learn more about our projects and client stories on our site.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior levelEmployment type
Full-timeJob function
Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries : IT Services and IT ConsultingNote : This description has been refined to improve readability and remove inconsistencies while preserving original content.
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