Overview
Our talented Integrated Center of Excellence 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 data, analytics, and AI technologies, let’s talk. Come join us as an Intelligent Data Platform (IDP) Solution Architect within our Integrated Center of Excellence 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 will play a senior leadership role in shaping, selling, and delivering enterprise‑scale analytics platforms built on Microsoft Fabric and contribute to shape the strategic direction using data platforms, reporting, self‑service analytics, real time intelligence and AI engineering. You will engage in strategic solutioning, lead high‑impact pre‑sales pursuits, intervene in complex or high‑risk deliveries with enterprise data solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure, Fabric and Databricks, and help define Avanade’s Fabric‑led data platform strategy, offerings, and accelerators. This role combines deep technical leadership, client advisory, and platform stewardship, as a trusted advisor with a strong partnership focus with Microsoft. Using the power of Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Data Factory, Spark, Warehousing, Real‑Time Analytics, and Power BI), alongside Azure services and applied AI, we help clients unlock insights, modernise analytics estates, and drive measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead pre‑sales, solution planning, and solution design for Microsoft Fabric‑centric sales pursuits and strategic accounts.
- Shape deals and propositions, including architecture, estimates, commercial inputs, and delivery approach, in collaboration with sales and delivery leadership.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating complex Fabric capabilities into clear business value and outcomes.
- Provide technical and delivery assurance, addressing delivery risks, quality concerns, and architectural issues when required.
- Drive Microsoft partnership engagement at an offering and capability level, influencing roadmap alignment and go‑to‑market activities.
- Define and promote best practices for Microsoft Fabric architecture, governance, security, performance, and cost optimisation.
- Establish reference architectures, accelerators, and reusable patterns across Fabric workloads (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Real‑Time, Semantic Models).
- Contribute thought leadership, points of view, and IP to support global GTM activities.
- Coach, mentor, and inspire technical leaders and architects across regions, building a strong Fabric community of practice.
- Stay current with Fabric and Azure platform evolution, incorporating new capabilities into client solutions and internal offerings.
- Support internal asset development and engineering initiatives to strengthen Avanade’s Fabric differentiation.
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