Databricks Data Platform Solution Architect
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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 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 Agentic AI, automation, AI engineering, data platforms, reporting and self‑serve analytics. Avanade is the 7‑time Databricks global partner of the year, delivering over 4000 Microsoft data platform projects annually and more Azure Databricks than any other Databricks partner.
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
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 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 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 go‑to‑market activities.
- Lead the development of intelligent data platform projects, building strategic capabilities for our clients.
- Integrate data from many systems, transform through lakehouse architectures and make it available for reporting, AI and conversational analytics.
Job Details
- Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
- Employment type: Contract
- Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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