Role Overview
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.
Responsibilities
* 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 our sales process by creating solutions that innovate, inspire and win new business. Shape high‑level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with subject‑matter experts.
* Mentor and coach junior colleagues across the organization.
* Translate complex technical concepts into 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, capture requirements, recommend best practices, and build strong relationships as a trusted advisor. Prepare and represent the solution in deal reviews and client presentations, and negotiate with key buyers.
* 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.
* Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and data technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions.
* 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 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 programmes involving the latest data platform concepts, including scaling AI across enterprises.
* Capability in creating design artifacts and presenting them for approval at architectural forums attended by multidisciplinary stakeholders from engineering to senior ("C level") client executives.
* 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 relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud‑Scale Analytics, etc.). Identify and design for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability.
* Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients.
Qualifications
Qualities that can spell success for this role:
* Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients.
* Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, science or engineering; equivalent combination of education and experience also supported.
* 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.
* 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.
* Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder.
* Resilient, adaptable, flexible.
* Humble leader, master negotiator, relationship builder.
Benefits
* People‑first culture that supports innovation and encourages people to move forward.
* Turn your ideas into human impact by cultivating a team that helps 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.
* Access to a company purpose‑built for business‑critical, leading‑edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live.
Case Studies
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Blogs & Resources
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Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protected group status as defined by law.
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