Data & AI Architect

Avanade Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy in London is seeking a Solution Architect for its Data & AI Practice. This senior, client-facing position involves delivering innovative data and AI solutions, providing technical leadership, and mentoring teams. The ideal candidate has expertise in GenAI, cloud solutions, and a strong background in consultative sales. This role offers opportunities for career growth in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

People-first culture

Opportunities to innovate

On-the-job growth through hackathons

Qualifications

• Proven success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects.
• Extensive experience working with large complex enterprise accounts.
• Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and shape solutions for client projects.
• Play a key role in the sales process and create innovative solutions.
• Mentor and inspire junior colleagues within the team.
• Drive the evolution of best practices for AI development.

Skills

GenAI / Agentic AI

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Data management

Cloud Scale Analytics

Education

Advanced degree in computer science, applied mathematics, science, or engineering

Job description

Come Join Us

We’re hiring a Solution Architect to join our Data & AI Practice, helping enterprise clients bring their vision to life through impactful, responsible, and scalable Data & AI solutions.

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. You'll engage in solutioning through gaining deep insight into our customers challenges and needs, taking responsibility for the technical design and solution for large scale analytical solutions. You’ll provide guidance and technical leadership to teams of data & AI engineers whilst building relationships with our clients to become a trusted advisor.

What you'll do

• 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

• Play a key role in Avanade's sales process by creating solutions that innovate, inspire and are win new business. You’ll 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 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. 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.

• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and data technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions

Skills and experiences

• 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.

• 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

• 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

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

• You are passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients

• You likely possess an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, science or engineering. At Avanade we also support an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 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

• You are acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence remote teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects

• Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder

• Resilient, adaptable, flexible

• Humble leader, master negotiator, relationship builder

• Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients

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 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, and to 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! Together we do what matters.

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our 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 Analytics team works on check out these case studies:

• Pagegroup partners with Avanade & Databricks for AI innovation | Avanade

• What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

• Kyowa Kirin International - Client Story | Avanade

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

• Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation

• Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.