Databricks Data Platform Solution Architect

Avanade; Whitehall; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade is seeking a Solution Architect within its Data & AI Practice to drive client-facing architecture, design, and strategy. You will lead technical decisions, shape proposals, and partner with sales to win opportunities, while mentoring junior colleagues and collaborating with data leadership on market offerings.

You will integrate data from multiple systems, modernizing through lakehouse architectures and enabling reporting, AI, and self-serve analytics to deliver high-value business

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural decisions for data and AI initiatives.
• Experience shaping high-level designs, proposals and roadmaps.
• Strong stakeholder communication with senior business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of intelligent data platform projects and lakehouse architectures.
• Shape deals and propositions; provide technical leadership to delivery teams.
• Support origination, qualification and client presentations; drive value-based outcomes.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Data & AI

Tools

Azure Databricks

Job description

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.As an Solution Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you'll leverage a client-centric approach to understand our client's 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 Agentic AI, automation, AI engineering, data platforms, reporting and self-serve analytics.. Avanade is the 7 times Databricks global partner of the year, we deliver over 4000 Microsoft data platform projects
annually and deliver more Azure Databricks than any other Databricks partner.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, 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 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 go to market activities.Lead the development of intelligent data platform projects, building strategic capabilities for our clients. Integrating data from many systems, transforming through lakehouse architectures and making available for reporting, AI and conversational analytics.