Data & AI Architect

Company: Avanade Spain SL
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Location: London
Job Description:

Solution Architect – Data & AI Practice

We’re hiring a Solution Architect to join our Data & AI Practice. This senior, client‑facing leadership role blends technical innovation, business strategy, and delivery excellence. The role focuses on delivering Agentic AI and data platform solutions that drive transformative change and high‑value business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to delivery teams and client stakeholders, shaping deals, propositions, and architectural decisions.
  • Lead solution design, develop plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts for large‑scale analytical solutions.
  • Play a pivotal role in the sales process by creating innovative solutions and managing high‑level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals.
  • Co‑coach and mentor junior colleagues, motivating and inspiring teams across the organization.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into clear, value‑based language for senior business stakeholders, technology leaders, and sales teams.
  • Engage early with clients, partners, and sales teams to support origination, qualification, requirement capture, and solutioning.
  • Represent solutions in deal reviews, client presentations, and negotiations with key client buyers.
  • Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape current and future offerings, accelerators, and proprietary IP.
  • Drive the evolution of best practices and methodologies for AI development, including data management, model training, fine‑tuning, and deployment.
  • Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI and data technologies, integrating relevant innovations into solutions.

Qualifications

  • Excellent working knowledge of GenAI / Agentic AI, Microsoft Fabric, and/or Databricks.
  • Awareness of channels to market and experience working within 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 creating technical visions, high‑level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs involving the latest data platform concepts, including scaling AI across enterprises.
  • Capability to create design artifacts and present them for approval at architectural forums with multi‑disciplined stakeholders from engineering to senior client executives.
  • In‑depth understanding of modern Data & AI capabilities such as structured and unstructured data analysis, streaming data, IoT, AI, GenAI, and related analytics fields.
  • Experience designing and delivering large‑scale Data Platform solutions using approaches like Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Fabric, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc., with emphasis on performance, security, and reliability.
  • Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with clients.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

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Posted: May 22nd, 2026