Sr Data Engineering Architect, Manager

Sr Data Engineering Architect Our talented Data & AI team 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 transform their business with the latest AI and data technologies, 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 a Lead Solution Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you'll leverage a client-centric approach to understand our clientu2019s challenges and opportunities to deliver solutions and services that make transformative change and deliver high value business 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 using data platforms, reporting, self-service analytics, real time intelligence and AI engineering. Using the power of modern data platforms, visualizations, advanced analytics, machine learning, IOT/Digital Twins and applied intelligence, we help clients gain business insights to optimize their operations, drive innovation, and make more empowered decisions. Together we do what matters What youu2019ll do As an architect assigned to a client project, you will typically 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 Avanade's sales process by creating solutions that innovate, inspire and win new business. Youu2019ll have 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 Have the ability to translate complex technical concepts and solutions and present them in fit for audience language and value-based outcomes, to senior business stakeholders, technology leaders and internal sales teams. Engage in early conversations with clients and/or sales team and 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. Prepare and represent the solution in Deal Reviews and play an active role in client presentations, and negotiations with key client buyers 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 Lead the development of data and analytics platforms, real time intelligence and reporting solutions using Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure Data Services, Fabric and Databricks. Stay abreast of the latest advancements in Data and AI technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions. Continue to identify the most relevant cross-industry solutions-at-scale for your region and execute on them including Data Migration, Automation Migration, Visualization/Reporting and Core Data Platform Modernization and Governance Drive measurable and sustained growth across the Data & AI Solution Area Integrate Data & AI into the other Global Solution Areas (Modern Workplace, Apps & Infrastructure, and Business Applications), offerings and go-to-market initiatives Drive strong Managed Services and multi-year engagements for Data & AI Skills and experiences Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft and Databricks Experience in Data, Applied Intelligence, Automation, IOT and related technologies 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 AI concepts particularly focused on scaling Data & AI across enterprises. Demonstrate a deep understanding of responsible data platform and migration principles, practices and regulatory frameworks and articulate clearly how to address risks whilst quickly delivering impactful solutions. Capability in creating design artifacts and presenting them for approval at architectural forums attended by multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to senior (

Created: 2025-10-08