Data & AI Architect

Job description

We’re hiring a Solution Architect to join our Data & AI Practice, helping enterprise clients bring their vision to life through impactful, responsible, and scalable Data & AI solutions. This is a senior, client-facing leadership role - perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation, business strategy, and delivery excellence. From shaping deals and crafting solution roadmaps to mentoring delivery teams and leading Agentic AI and data platform engagements, this role is about creating real impact — at scale. As an Architect within our Data & AI practice, you'll deliver Agentic AI and data platform solutions and services that make transformative change and deliver high value business outcomes. You'll engage in solutioning through gaining deep insight into our customers challenges and needs, taking responsibility for the technical design and solution for large scale analytical solutions. You’ll provide guidance and technical leadership to teams of data & AI engineers whilst building relationships with our clients to become a trusted advisor. Key Responsibilities: As an architect assigned to one or more client projects, you will work closely 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 are win new business. You’ll have responsibility for shaping the high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with other subject matter experts in the business. As a senior member of the Avanade technical community, you will provide coaching and mentoring to motivate and inspire more junior colleagues from within your team and across the organization. Have the ability to translate complex technical concepts and solutions and present them in easy to understand language and value based outcomes, to senior business stakeholders, technology leaders and internal sales teams. Engage in early conversations with clients, partners and sales teams to support origination and deal qualification, requirements capture and solutioning, recommending best practices and approaches to achieve optimal outcomes, building strong relationship with clients to become the trusted advisor. Prepare and represent the solution in Deal Reviews and play an active role in client presentations, and negotiations with key client buyers. Work collaboratively with the wider Data & AI leadership to shape our 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. Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and data technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions. . Excellent working knowledge of GenAI / Agentic AI, Microsoft Fabric and/ or Databricks. Awareness of channels to market and how to work in a Microsoft and partner eco-system to ensure Customer Success. High energy intent to help clients understand the fast moving Data & AI industry, product and service evolution. Experience working with stakeholders to create technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs of work that involve the latest data platform concepts including on how to scale AI across enterprises. Capability in creating design artifacts and presenting them for approval at architectural forums attended by multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to senior ("C level") client executives. In-depth understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities such as; structured and unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related topical analytics fields. Experience in designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.). Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability. Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients. #Li-EU Enjoy your career Some of the best things about working at Avanade Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications) Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally Collaborate with some of the brightest “Microsoft minds” Build your expertise, solve problems, learn, and develop Find out more about some of our benefits here . A great place to work As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look! We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page. Create a future for our people that focuses on • Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting Inspire greatness in our people by • Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress Accelerate the impact of our people by • Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one Learn more To learn more about the types of projects our Data Engineering team works on check out these case studies: thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs: Avanade Insights – exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation Inside Avanade – explore what life is like working at Avanade .