Avanade · 2 hours ago
Azure AI Engineer, Sr Analyst
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$88K/yr - $104K/yr
1+ years expAvanade is a company focused on developing scalable AI solutions aligned to business strategies. The AI Engineer role involves working as part of a team to deliver technical AI work, helping clients extract insight and value from their data using Microsoft AI technologies.
Business IntelligenceConsultingEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyManagement ConsultingProfessional Services
Responsibilities
Customer readiness and onboarding, nominations review, and use case vetting processes
Proof of Concept solution design and prototyping with AI technology, with a primary focus on AI capabilities like OCR, NLP, reasoning with LLMs, AI agents, and AI Search with traditional and vector DBs and a secondary focus on machine learning
Produce solutions for clients working with both structured and unstructured data applying these AI capabilities
Conduct customer satisfaction surveys and share key learnings, run customer engagement reports and project retrospective reports as well as provide summary for customer & logging product bugs with engineering team
Provide facility tours, manage demo showcase, and process improvements
Communicate insights to help steer business strategy and decision-making
Qualification
Required
Demonstrable professional experience with build AI solutions over complex data sets (including data prep and ingestion) in industry scenarios
Proficiency in building RAG/GraphRAG solutions powered by LLMs
Highly proficient with two or more languages, such as Python, PySpark, R, SQL, etc
Azure AI services (including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, and Azure ML to support building out capabilities listed above)
Software engineering experience using DevOps principals (Knowledge of DevOps workflows, Git, containers, CI/CD, etc.)
Good communication and presentation skills. Able to explain complex analytical methodologies and concepts in non-technical language to audiences at multiple skill levels
You likely possess a degree in Computer Science or Engineering or have experience in a relevant field in the industry. An equivalent combination of education and experience will also suffice
You likely have about 1-2 years+ of demonstrable experience building AI solutions, preferably in a consulting environment working directly with clients
Preferred
Bonus Skills: Preference for prior experience working and developing in Azure
Company
Avanade
Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Rodrigo Caserta
Chief Executive Officer at Avanade
Ken Guthrie
Chief Financial Officer
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