Data Architect (Consulting)
New Yesterday
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. Youll provide guidance and technical leadership to teams of data & AI engineers whilst building relationships with our clients to become a trusted advisor.
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
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
Have the ability to translate complex technical concepts and solutions and present them in easy to understand language and value based outcomes, to 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, building strong relationship with clients to become the trusted advisor. Work collaboratively with the wider Data & AI leadership to shape our 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 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 that involve the latest data platform concepts including on how to scale AI across enterprises.
In-depth understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities such as; structured and unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related topical analytics fields
Experience in designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.). Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability
Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients
You likely possess an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, science or engineering. 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
Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence remote teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects
Resilient, adaptable, flexible
Opportunities to innovate in the Microsoft platform while charting your own career path
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. Youll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.
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Pagegroup partners with Avanade & Databricks for AI innovation | Avanade
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- Location:
- London
- Job Type:
- FullTime