Overview
Avanade Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Data & AI Architect
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 at the intersection of technical innovation, business strategy, and delivery excellence. You’ll shape deals, craft solution roadmaps, mentor delivery teams, and lead Agentic AI and data platform engagements to create real impact at scale. You will deliver Agentic AI and data platform solutions and services that drive high-value business outcomes, engage in solutioning by understanding customer challenges, and take responsibility for the technical design and solution for large-scale analytical programs. You’ll provide technical leadership to teams of data & AI engineers while building client relationships as a trusted advisor.
Skills and Experiences
* 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 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 involving modern data platform concepts and scaling AI across enterprises
* Ability to create design artifacts and present them for approval at architectural forums with multi-disciplinary stakeholders
* In-depth understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities (structured and unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related analytics)
* Experience designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.; design for performance, security, and reliability
* Comfortable engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients
About You
* Passionate about tech and advising clients
* Advanced degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience
* Proven success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications
* Extensive experience architecting cloud data estate solutions for large enterprises
* Strong communication skills; ability to lead remote teams and influence client executives
* Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder; resilient and adaptable
* Humble leader and adept negotiator
* Passionate about tech and advising clients
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
* Support sales by shaping high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for proposals in collaboration with subject matter experts
* Coach and mentor junior colleagues within the team and across the organization
* Translate complex technical concepts into clear language and value-based outcomes for senior stakeholders and internal sales teams
* Engage in early client conversations to support origination, requirements capture, solutioning, and best-practice recommendations; assist with Deal Reviews and client meetings
* Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape offerings, accelerators, and IP for GTM activities
* Drive evolution of AI development practices including data management, model training, fine-tuning, and deployment
* Stay updated on AI and data tech advances and incorporate relevant innovations into solutions
Learn more
To learn more about the types of projects our Analytics team works on check out case studies and our blogs for insights into Avanade and Databricks collaborations.
Benefits
* Opportunity to work with Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with development and training (minimum 80 hours per year)
* Real-time access to technical resources globally
* Dedicated career advisor to support your growth
* Supportive coworkers and a culture focused on inclusion and diversity
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Design, IT
* Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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