Overview
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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.
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 the most 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 their operations, drive innovation, and make more empowered decisions.
Together we do what matters.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on client projects, 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. Responsible for shaping high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with subject matter experts.
- Coach and mentor junior colleagues within the team and across the organization.
- Translate complex technical concepts for senior business stakeholders, technology leaders, and internal sales teams.
- Engage in early client conversations and 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 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 and execute cross-industry solutions-at-scale for your region, including Data Migration, Automation Migration, Visualization / Reporting, and Core Data Platform Modernization and Governance.
- Drive measurable and sustained growth across the Data & AI Solution Area.
- Integrate Data & AI into other Global Solution Areas, offerings, and go-to-market initiatives. Drive strong Managed Services and multi-year engagements for Data & AI.
Qualifications
Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft and Databricks.Experience in Data, Applied Intelligence, Automation, IOT and related technologies.Aware of channels to market and how to work in a Microsoft and partner ecosystem to ensure Customer Success.High energy, intent to help clients understand the fast-moving 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 AI concepts, particularly focused on scaling AI across enterprises.Deep understanding of responsible data platform and migration principles, practices and regulatory frameworks; articulate how 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 client executives.Understand modern Data & AI capabilities (structured / unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related fields).Experience designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.; design for performance, security, reliability.Comfortable 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 or 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 with large enterprise accounts architecting cloud data workloads.Strong communication skills, ability to lead remote teams, and influence stakeholders.Consultative, collaborative, relationship-builder; resilient, adaptable, and humble leadership.What You'll Do
Architect on client projects, provide technical leadership, shape deals, drive architectural decisions, create plans / roadmaps, and produce design artifacts.Contribute to Avanade's sales process by designing solutions that win new business and shaping high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals.Mentor junior colleagues and coach teams to deliver successful customer projects.Translate complex concepts into audience-appropriate language and demonstrate value-based outcomes to senior stakeholders.Support deal origination, requirements capture, and solutioning; build client relationships as trusted advisor and participate in client presentations and negotiations.Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to evolve offerings, accelerators, and background IP to support GTM activities.Drive best practices for AI development, including data management, model training, fine-tuning, and deployment; develop data / analytics platforms and real-time solutions.Stay informed on latest Data & AI technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into solutions.Identify cross-industry solutions-at-scale and drive Data & AI opportunities and engagements.Collaborate with other Global Solution Areas to expand offerings and go-to-market initiatives.Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services through the Microsoft ecosystem. We are committed to an inclusive, diverse culture and equal employment opportunities for all applicants.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior levelEmployment type
Full-timeJob function
Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries : IT Services and IT ConsultingWe value equal opportunity and do not discriminate based on race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or other legally protected status.
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