Data & AI Solution Architect

Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Avanade Inc. Full time

Data AI Solution Architect

Our talented Data AI Practice 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 make better data-driven decisions to tackle their most complex business issues, let's talk. Take your skills to a new level and launch a career where you can truly do what matters.

Come join us

As a Solution Architect within our Data AI Practice, you'll leverage a client-centric approach to translate our client's business strategy into solutions and services that lead to successful, impactful 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 around data architecture.

Together we do what matters.

What you'll do

  • As an architect assigned to a client project, you will typically work closely with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, drive architectural decisions, shape deals and propositions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts
  • Assist clients in their journey to Microsoft Azure or leverage their existing investment in it - you can expect a significant focus on applying cloud architectural patterns and migration strategies
  • 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
  • Engage in early conversations with the client and/or sales team and support origination and deal qualification, become a trusted advisor. Prepare and represent the solution in Deal Reviews and support Orals, Client Presentations, and negotiations discussions with key client buyers
  • Collaborate with other Solution Architects and SMEs as required to define the solution. Drive a solution from conception to close using standard solution architecture processes, and modelling tools to drive quality. Understand and leverage different pricing models and work with Sales Leads to articulate deal pricing.

Skills and experiencesss

  • Good working knowledge and experience of in the Microsoft and partner ecosystem, understanding the roadmap to help clients implement Microsoft's product evolution including Azure Open AI, Fabric and Co-Pilot
  • Experience working with stakeholders to create technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs of work that involve platforming/re-platforming Data Solutions within Azure cloud, utilizing tools such as Databricks and Synapse
  • 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
  • Experience in designing and delivering large-scale Data solutions using relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.)
  • Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

  • 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, statistics, or machine learning. At Avanade we also support 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 required
  • 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
  • You are acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence remote teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects
  • Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

· People-first culture that supports innovation and encourages people to move forward

· Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that will help clients unlock what's next​

· Opportunities to innovate in the Microsoft platform while charting your own career path

· On-the-job growth through hackathons, innovation contests, and other expressions of our passion for innovating with purpose

· Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] 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, but to also 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 [2] 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 AI team works on check out these case studies:

· [3] thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance

· [4] What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

· [5] Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches

· [6] Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

· [7] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow's innovation

· [8] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

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