Overview

Our talented Data & AI team is made up of globally recognized experts - and there's room for more analytical and ambitious data professionals. If you're passionate about helping clients transform their business with the latest AI and data technologies, let's talk. Take your skills to a new level and launch a career where you can truly do what matters.

Come join us

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 that 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 creates real impact — at scale.

As an Architect within our Data & AI practice, you\'ll deliver Agentic AI and data platform solutions and services that enable transformative change and high-value business outcomes. You\'ll engage in solutioning by 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 while building relationships with our clients to become a trusted advisor.

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 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.
• Translate complex technical concepts and solutions into easy-to-understand language and value-based outcomes for 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, and build strong client relationships to become the trusted advisor. Prepare and present the solution in Deal Reviews and participate in client presentations and negotiations with key client buyers.
• Work collaboratively with the wider 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.
• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and data technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions.

Qualifications / Skills

• 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 ecosystem to ensure customer success.
• High energy with the 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 involving the latest data platform concepts, including scaling AI across enterprises.
• Ability to create design artifacts and present them for approval at architectural forums attended by multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to senior client executives.
• In-depth understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities such as structured and unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related analytics fields.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using approaches such as Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, identifying and designing for key characteristics like 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 is preferred.

About you

• You are passionate about technology and engaging with and advising clients.
• Proven success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.
• Extensive experience working with large complex enterprise accounts architecting cloud solutions for data estate workloads and implementing large-scale data projects within the cloud environment.
• Strong collaboration, decision-making, and communication skills; ability to lead remote teams and ensure successful project execution.
• Consultative, collaborative, relationship-builder; resilient, adaptable, flexible; humble leadership and strong negotiation and relationship-building abilities.
• Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients.

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Analytics team works on, check out these case studies: Pagegroup partners with Avanade & Databricks for AI innovation | Avanade; SSE Renewables case study; Kyowa Kirin International - Client Story | Avanade. Interested in knowing what\'s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs: Avanade Insights, Inside Avanade.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade:

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft\'s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications).
• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally.
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth.
• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you.

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you\'ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. We value inclusion and diversity and strive to create a community of smart, supportive collaborators. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page for more information.