Azure Data Architect

Summary

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.  

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

• 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

• Contribute to presales activities, including solutioning, effort estimation, and proposal development, ensuring alignment with client business needs

• Manage capability planning for the team, identifying skill gaps and aligning training or hiring needs to meet future demand

• Develop reusable solutions, frameworks, and assets to accelerate delivery, enhance quality, and enable knowledge sharing across teams

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and bring best practices into solution design

Additionally, you’ll also be comfortable in working on application development projects for our client who is a reputable business operating within the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sanitary industry sector.”

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Skills & 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.)

• Proven experience in migrating on-premise Data Warehouses and ETL pipelines to cloud-based DW solutions, particularly Azure and Databricks

• Exposure to Power BI reporting, including data modeling and dashboard/report design to enable business insights and self-service analytics

• Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability

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