Forward-Deployed Azure AI & Data Consultant

Storm Technology Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Storm Technology, part of the Littlefish Group, is expanding its Data & AI Practice in Dublin. We are seeking a Microsoft Forward Deployed Consultant who thrives on customer-facing delivery and cutting-edge Microsoft technologies to unlock Azure, AI, Fabric, and 365 value for clients.

You will move between discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery, shaping practical solutions and production-ready implementations across Azure, Fabric, Power Platform, and Graph.

Qualifications

• Strong consulting experience in customer-facing technology delivery.
• Ability to move confidently from discovery and architecture into hands-on implementation.
• Experience integrating cloud services with enterprise systems and data platforms.
• Solid understanding of security, governance, data protection, and production readiness.
• Confidence to work through ambiguity and make pragmatic, evidence-based decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to build credibility with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed yourself within customer teams to understand their business objectives, processes, data, and technology landscape.
• Translate complex and evolving business challenges into practical solution designs and delivery plans.
• Design and build proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and production-ready solutions using Microsoft technologies.
• Work across Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft AI services.
• Integrate solutions with existing enterprise applications, data sources, identity platforms, and operational processes.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, testing, documentation, and innovation.
• Collaborate closely with architects, engineers, data specialists, security teams, and key business stakeholders.
• Establish robust security, governance, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Support customers throughout deployment, adoption, and transition into ongoing operational support.
• Identify reusable patterns, accelerators, and best practices that can be leveraged across future customer engagements.
• Communicate technical, delivery, and commercial considerations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, helping them successfully adopt and scale Microsoft solutions that deliver measurable business value.

Skills

Azure AI

Cloud architecture

Microsoft Fabric

Power Platform

Power BI

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Graph

API integration

DevOps

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Azure OpenAI

React

Angular

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Entra ID

CI/CD / IaC

Job description

Storm Technology, part of the Littlefish Group, is expanding its Data & AI Practice in Dublin. We are seeking a Microsoft Forward Deployed Consultant who thrives on customer-facing delivery and cutting-edge Microsoft technologies to unlock Azure, AI, Fabric, and 365 value for clients.

You will move between discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery, shaping practical solutions and production-ready implementations across Azure, Fabric, Power Platform, and Graph.