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Avanade · 2 hours ago

AI Architect

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$151K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Avanade is a company specializing in technology solutions, and they are seeking an AI Architect to design and develop scalable AI solutions. The AI Architect will serve as a technical advisor, helping clients scale their AI programs while adhering to industry best practices and delivering high-quality solutions.

Business IntelligenceConsultingEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyManagement ConsultingProfessional Services

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Facilitate team, client meetings and pre-sales presentations

Partner closely with our AI, IoT, and Intelligent Automation team and Solution Architects to translate the customer's business requirements to define AI & IoT value proposition and solution scope

Analyze client processes, identify AI opportunities, and recommend approach based on analysis and client maturity

Estimate, solution, design, and help drive and deliver AI deals

Help build AI assets and enable internal and external stakeholders while growing capability and delivering high-quality solutions for clients

Assist in delivery as AI SME, Solution Architect, or Technical Architect

Provide continuous advice, best practices, and quality assurance to AI project teams related to delivery approach and strategy

Qualification

AI solutions designMachine Learning frameworksAzure AI ServicesData analytics applicationDevOpsMLOps.NetPythonComputer VisionTime-Series AnalyticsReal-time data analyticsData profilingMappingCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

You're an organized problem-solver with a talent for business, whose knowledge and experience helps turn business needs into solutions

Management Consulting & SI Experience is strongly preferred

Experience with AI (algorithms, AI-on-chip, AI hardware accelerators), Machine Learning (frameworks such as TensorFlow, CUDA, ONNX, Caffe, etc. preferred), Computer Vision and other Azure Data and AI services

Applying data and analytics to business use cases

Engineering background preferred in related areas – programming, custom software development, app dev

Data profiling, cataloging and mapping to enable the design and build of technical data flows

Use validated methods to solve business problems using Azure Data and Analytics services in combination with building data pipelines, data streams, and system integration

Experience in preparing data for consumption

.Net (Software Engineering)

Python (Analytics/Software Engineering)

LLM solution architecture & solution development (Generative AI / Azure OpenAI)

Time-Series Analytics (Analytics)

Real-time or near real-time streaming data analytics (Analytics)

Understanding of data science and machine learning principles (Analytics)

DevOps, MLOps, SDLC, Agile Development

Azure AI Services (including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services) and Azure ML

Preferred

You probably have a master's degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, statistics or machine learning – or an equivalent combination of education and experience

You're likely to be a MSFT Certified Data Science Associate and you have been in a similar professional position for around five to seven years

Cross talent community skillset, one resource that has all these skills

Strong management consultant

Strong software or engineer/architect

Decent data scientist

Decent infrastructure architect

Enterprise Architect

Can talk openly and easily about AI use cases in multiple industries (Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Resources, etc.)

Strong communication and customer facing skills

Capable of writing solid code

Comfortable in a hands-on position

Capable of seeing the big picture, and breaking it down to it's discreet components (being a good architect)

Travel as needed

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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