Overview

Avanade Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Join to apply for the Data & AI Architect role at Avanade.

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, 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 to achieve optimal outcomes, building strong relationships with clients to become the trusted advisor. Prepare and represent 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.

About You

• You are passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients.
• You likely possess an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, science or engineering. Avanade also supports 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 working with large complex enterprise accounts architecting cloud solutions for data estate workloads and implementing large-scale data projects within the cloud environment.
• Strong ability to drive decisions collaboratively, resolve conflicts, and ensure follow-through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence remote teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
• Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder; resilient, adaptable, and a humble leader with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership on client projects, shape deals and propositions, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts.
• Assist in shaping high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with subject matter experts.
• Mentor junior colleagues and motivate teams across the organization.
• Translate complex concepts into clear language and value-based outcomes for senior stakeholders and internal teams.
• Engage in early client conversations to support origination, requirements capture, and solutioning, advocating best practices and building trusted advisor relationships.
• Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape offerings, accelerators, and background IP for GTM activities.
• Advance AI development practices, including data management, model training, fine-tuning, and deployment.
• Keep up-to-date with AI and data tech advancements and weave relevant innovations into solutions.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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