Azure AI Architect

Come join us

As an Analytics AI 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 toshape the strategic direction around data architecture.

Together we do what matters.

What you'll do

The Azure AI Architect is responsible for estimating, solutioning, and developing scalable architecture aligned to a business strategy and benefits case. The Azure AI Architect will need to understand how various parts of the business processes, operating systems, and application architectures work together to design a specific AI solution that fits a client's environmental requirements. In parallel, they will also need to take ownership of project delivery for technical AI work. The Azure AI Architect will need to be able to design custom cloud-AI solutions that adhere to Avanade's AI methodologies and industry best practices and will be accountable for recommending appropriate technology solutions, delivering architectural/technical solution designs, and driving technical delivery.

Solution Architecture/Pre-Sales:

Facilitate team and client meetings and conduct pre-sales presentations to showcase our solutions and capabilities.

Collaborate closely with our AI, IoT, and Intelligent Automation teams and Solution Architects to translate customer's business requirements into tangible AI value propositions and solution scopes.

Analyze client processes, identify AI opportunities, and recommend approach based on analysis and client maturity.

Estimate, solution, design, and help drive and deliver AI deals.

Help build AI assets and enable internal and external stakeholders while growing capability and delivering high-quality solutions for clients.

Project Technical Lead:

Lead delivery for a variety of AI projects as SME, Solution Architect, or Technical Architect

Lead Data Exploration

Develop and Validate AI Models

Generate Insights and Recommendations

Support Implementation and Deployment of Models

Provide technical guidance, best practices, and quality assurance to AI project teams related to delivery approach and strategy.

Travel as needed.

About you

You're an organized problem-solver with a talent and acumen for business, whose knowledge and experience helps turn business needs into solutions. You guide and support your team, whether at home or around the globe, to provide successful and accessible AI solutions that solve client problems.

AI, Machine Learning, Data Science & Analytics (Required: Python, TensorFlow, Neural Networks, Predictive Modeling, LLM)

Design & Build cloud architecture for AI solutions (preferably in Azure)

Azure AI Services: OpenAI, Speech, Language, Vision preferred

Applying data and analytics to business use cases

Software engineering using DevOps principals (Knowledge of DevOps workflows, Git, containers, CICD, etc.)

Use validated methods to solve business problems using Azure Data and Analytics services in combination with building data pipelines, data streams, and system integration.

Hands on delivery using Python

Real-time or near real-time streaming data analytics

DevOps, MLOps, SDLC, Agile Development

Architect/Sales Experience:

Sales Mentality: Strong communication and customer facing skills.

Communicator: Can talk openly and easily about AI use cases in multiple industries (Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Resources, etc.) and articulate ROI

Solutioning: Capable of seeing the big picture and breaking it down to its discreet components.

Leadership Experience:

Leadership: Ability to drive overall project goals and make calculated decisions to drive innovation

Consulting: Management Consulting & SI excellence is strongly preferred

Team management: Proven experience leading teams, fostering collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing, communication, etc.

Mentorship: Foster growth and development of junior professionals

Preferred Experience/Capabilities:

You probably have a master's degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, or machine learning - or an equivalent combination of education and experience. You're likely to be a MSFT Certified Data Science Associate and you have been in a similar professional position for around five to seven years.

A preferred candidate will have 5+ years in high tech sales architecture role including responsibilities around:

Leadership - Ran successful team of Data Scientists and AI Architects

Prioritization - Led all task delegation and ownership around prioritization of work.

Pipeline ownership - Managed and grew sales pipeline around AI and Machine Learning

Technical Expertise - Valued as thought leader in AI lending oversight to delivery teams.

Project Management - Managed DevOps teams and is a certified project manager.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

People-first culture that supports innovationand encourages people to move forward

Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that willhelp 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

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return.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. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, but to also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It's all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

Expanding your thinking * Experimenting courageously * Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

Empowering every voice * Encouraging boldness * Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

Amazing the client * Prioritizing what matters * Acting as one

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Data & AI team works on check out these case studies:

[3] thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance

[4] What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

[5] Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches

[6] Marston Holdingsidentifies significant cloud savings

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

[7] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow's innovation

[8] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

References

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https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits

https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity

https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/thyssenkrupp

https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai

https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/hachette-automated-identification

https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/marston-holdings

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade