Sr Data Engineering Architect, Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake

Avanade; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,400 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exceptional development and training opportunities

Real-time access to global resources

Career advisor for growth

Engaged and supportive coworkers

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm is seeking a Senior Data Engineering Architect to provide technical leadership and drive architectural decisions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and Snowflake, with a focus on modern Data & AI capabilities. This role involves engaging with client stakeholders, mentoring junior colleagues, and leading complex data and analytics platform developments. The position offers competitive compensation and exceptional training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Excellent hands-on working knowledge of Azure and Snowflake.
• In-depth understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities.
• Experience in designing large-scale Data Platforms.
• Comfortable engaging with clients for sales opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and support delivery teams.
• Drive architectural decisions and create design artifacts.
• Engage with clients to qualify and capture requirements.
• Lead the development of data and analytics platforms.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Snowflake

Data analysis

IoT

AI

GenAI

Technical leadership

Sales and business development

Education

Advanced degree in computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, or machine learning

Tools

Python

SQL

Azure Data Services

Databricks

Job description

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.

As a Lead 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 shaping 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.

What you’ll 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. 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 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 relationships 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.
• Lead the development of data and analytics platforms, real‑time intelligence and reporting solutions using Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure Data Services, Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Excellent hands‑on working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Snowflake.
• 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.
• Awareness of channels to market and how to work in a Microsoft and partner ecosystem 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 ("C level") client executives.
• 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

• 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, statistics, or machine learning. 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

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications).
• Real‑time access to technical and skilled resources globally.
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth.
• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you.

Benefits

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Compensation

• California – $150,400 – $194,000
• Cleveland – $139,200 – $174,000
• Colorado – $139,200 – $174,000
• District of Columbia – $155,000 – $194,000
• Illinois – $150,400 – $188,000
• Maryland – $155,000 – $194,000
• Massachusetts – $155,000 – $194,000
• Minnesota – $139,200 – $174,000
• New York / New Jersey – $164,800 – $200,000
• Washington – $155,000 – $194,000

Avanade offers a market‑competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long‑term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.