Our AI team is made up of academically accomplished, industry-recognised experts - and there’s room for more analytical, innovative, client-driven data professionals to join us. If you’re passionate about helping clients realise the true value and impact of AI and data science, keep reading. An opportunity on Avanade’s AI team will help take your career to the next level where you can truly do what matters. Come join us As the technical lead in the AI team, you’ll work across Avanade's Data & AI practice to build, deploy, and scale bespoke, advanced AI solutions and platforms for some of the world's leading businesses. Alongside this, our teams work across a range of industries building solutions at the cutting edge of GenAI, Agentic AI, Computer Vision, IoT, ML, AI, and Deep and Reinforcement Learning. Join our team and you can help our clients realize the potential of their data. You’ll leverage a client-centric approach to translate business strategies into solutions and services that lead to successful, impactful outcomes .You'll gain deep insight into our client’s challenges and engage in solutioning on the most strategic opportunities, intervene in high-risk complex deliveries, and contribute to shape the strategic direction around data architecture. Together we do what matters. 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 with the 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 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 GenAI, Agentic AI, AI platforms, ML, AI, and statistical algorithms and solutions using Python and tools from Microsoft and Databricks * Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and machine learning technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into our solutions Skills and experiences * 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 AI 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 * In-depth understanding of modern AI capabilities, structured and unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI and related topical analytics fields * Significant experience in implementing/deploying data science solutions in Azure/AWS/GCP * Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients About you Characteristics that can spell success for this role * You likely possess an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, theoretical physics, computational biology, 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 * Some of the best things about working at Avanade * People-first culture that supports innovation and encourages people to move forward * Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that will help 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: [1] Anglian water uses digital twin and AI | Avanade UK [2] PageGroup uses Gen Ai for job hunt case study | Avanade [3] NHS Digital - Microsoft Teams | Avanade UK [4] SSE Renewables AI Case Study | Avanade UK [5] The Felix Project - Microsoft Power Platform | Avanade UK Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs: [6] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation [7] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade References Visible links 1. https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/anglian-water-digital-twin-ai#:~:text=The%20solution%20brings%20data%20together,that%20flows%20through%20the%20model. 2. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/pagegroup-generative-ai-job-search 3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/nhs-digital 4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai 5. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/the-felix-project 6. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights 7. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-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.