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Avanade · 9 hours ago

Sr Data Engineering Architect - Azure Databricks, Manager

Seattle, WA

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $194K/yr

Avanade is a company made up of globally recognized experts in Data & AI, seeking to expand their team with analytical and ambitious data professionals. The Lead Solution Architect will leverage a client-centric approach to provide technical leadership, engage in solutioning, and drive transformative change using modern data platforms and AI technologies.

Business IntelligenceConsultingEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyManagement ConsultingProfessional Services

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Microsoft Azure Data ServicesDatabricksData Platform SolutionsPythonSQLAI EngineeringData MigrationTechnical SalesStakeholder EngagementConsultative ApproachRelationship BuildingAdaptability

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

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

Preferred

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

Company

Avanade

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Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.

Founded in 2000

Seattle, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.avanade.com

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