Accenture · 1 month ago
Sr Data Engineering Architect - Azure Databricks, Manager
Seattle, 1191 2nd Avenue, Corp
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $194K/yrAccenture is seeking a Lead Solution Architect within their Data & AI Practice. The role involves providing technical leadership, shaping deals, and delivering innovative solutions to help clients transform their business using advanced data technologies.
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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 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 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-scale for your region and execute on them including Data Migration, Automation Migration, Visualization/Reporting 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 & Infrastructure, and Business Applications), offerings and go-to-market initiatives
Drive strong Managed Services and multi-year engagements for Data & AI
Qualification
Required
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-disciplined 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 characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability
Comfortable actively engaging and leading sales and business development opportunities with 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/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
Company
Accenture
Accenture is a professional services company that provides solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Founded in 1989
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$6MKey Investors
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2018-10-01Grant· $6M
2001-07-27IPO
Leadership Team
Christie Smith
Senior Managing Director, Global CEO Transformation: Strategy & Consulting Lead
Jeff Laue
CEO and Senior Managing Director of Accenture Digital Inside Sales
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