About the job
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 an Analytics 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.
Skills and experiences
- 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 Platform solutions using relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.)
- Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability
- Working knowledge of Azure infrastructure and setting it up in projects
- Experience in Data Platform Migration projects
- PM/Delivery Leadership experience
About You
Characteristics that can spell success for this role
- Consultative, collaborative, curious
- Resilient, adaptable, flexible
- Humble leader, strong negotiator, relationship builder
- Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients
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, 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
Play a key role in Avanade's sales process with the responsibility for shaping the high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with other subject matter experts in the business
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
To learn more about the types of projects our Data & AI team works on check out these case studies:
- thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance
- What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future
- Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches
- Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings
