Sr Data Engineering Architect - Azure Databricks, Manager

Summary

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 shape the strategic direction using data platforms, reporting, self-service analytics, real time intelligence and AI engineering.

Using the power of modern data platforms, v isualizations, 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

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 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 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 collaborativel y 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-s cale for your region and execute on them including Data Migration, Automation Migration, V isualization/R eporting 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 & I nfrastructure, and Business Applications), offerings and go-to-market initiatives

Drive strong Managed Services and multi-year engagements for Data & AI Qualifications

Experience Required for Success:

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 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 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-discipli ned 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 characteristic s such as performance, security, and reliability.

Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients Compensation at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

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

About you:

Characteristic s 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, statistics, or machine learning. At Avanade we also support an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Proven success in consultative/c omplex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, i mplementation, 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 collaborativel y, 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

Additional Information

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About Avanade

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 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!

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

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page. 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.