Overview
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Responsibilities
- As a Lead Solution Architect within the Data & AI Practice, leverage a client-centric approach to understand challenges and opportunities to deliver solutions and services that drive transformative change and high-value business outcomes. Engage in solutioning and support on strategic opportunities, intervene in high-risk complex deliveries, and shape the strategic direction using data platforms, reporting, self-service analytics, real-time intelligence and AI engineering.
- Use modern data platforms, visualizations, advanced analytics, machine learning, IoT / Digital Twins and applied intelligence to help clients gain insights, optimize operations, drive innovation and enable informed decisions.
- Engage in sales and business development opportunities with clients, shape high-level design, estimates and contractual details for proposals in collaboration with subject matter experts.
- Provide coaching and mentoring as a senior member of the technical community to motivate junior colleagues and share expertise across the organization.
- Translate complex technical concepts into audience-appropriate language and value-based outcomes for senior business stakeholders, technology leaders and internal sales teams.
- Lead early client conversations, support deal origination, requirements capture and solutioning, recommend best practices, and build strong client relationships as a trusted advisor.
- Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape current and future offerings, accelerators and background IP to support GTM activities.
- Drive the 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 and AI technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into solutions.
- Identify relevant cross-industry, scalable solutions (Data Migration, Automation Migration, Visualization / Reporting, Core Data Platform Modernization and Governance) for your region and execute on them.
- Drive measurable and sustained growth across the Data & AI Solution Area and integrate Data & AI with other Global Solution Areas, offerings and go-to-market initiatives.
- Support and drive managed services and multi-year engagements for Data & AI.
Qualifications and Characteristics
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 a passion 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 the latest AI concepts, especially focused on scaling AI across enterprises.Deep understanding of responsible data platforms, migration principles, regulatory frameworks and ability to address risks while delivering impactful solutions.Ability to create design artifacts and present them for approval at architectural forums with multi-disciplinary stakeholders from engineering to C-level executives.Strong knowledge of modern Data & AI capabilities (structured / unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related analytics).Experience designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc., with attention to performance, security and reliability.Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development with clients.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. Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation, Avanade has more certifications, Gold-level competencies and valued professionals than any other Microsoft partner. 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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