Overview
Avanade Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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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.
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 - perfect for someone who 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 is about creating real impact — at scale. As an Architect within our Data & AI practice, you\'ll deliver Agentic AI and data platform solutions and services that make transformative change and deliver high value business outcomes. You\'ll engage in solutioning through 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 whilst 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
* As a senior member of the Avanade technical community, provide coaching and mentoring to motivate and inspire more junior colleagues
* 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
* Build strong relationships with clients to become the trusted advisor; prepare and represent the solution in Deal Reviews and participate in client presentations and negotiations
* 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 solutions
Qualifications
* 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 eco-system to ensure Customer Success
* High energy 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 modern data platform concepts and scalable AI
* Capability in creating design artifacts and presenting them for approval at architectural forums with multi-disciplinary stakeholders
* 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 Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc., with attention to performance, security, and reliability
* Comfortable actively 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 experience; Avanade 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 architecting cloud solutions for data estate workloads and implementing large-scale data projects within the cloud
* Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to lead and influence remote teams and engage with senior client executives
* Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder; resilient and adaptable; humble leader and skilled negotiator
* Passionate about tech and engaging with 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
* Contribute to Avanade\'s sales process by designing innovative solutions and shaping high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for proposals
* Coach and mentor junior colleagues; share knowledge across the organization
* Translate complex technical concepts for senior stakeholders and internal sales teams
* Engage early with clients, partners and sales teams to support origination and deal qualification, requirements capture, and solutioning
* Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape offerings, accelerators, and IP for GTM activities
* Drive best practices for AI development, including data management, model training, and deployment
* Stay updated on AI and data technologies 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 related Avanade resources.
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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