Azure Data Architect (APAC)

Job description

Our talented Data & AI Practice 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 make better data-driven decisions to tackle their most complex business issues, let’s talk.

Take your skills to a new level and launch a career where you can truly do what matters.

Come join us

As an Analytics Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you’ll leverage a client-centric approach to translate our client’s business strategy into solutions and services that lead to successful, impactful 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 around data architecture.

Together we do what matters.

What you’ll do

• As an architect assigned to a client project, you will typically work closely with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts

• Assist clients in their journey to Microsoft Azure or leverage their existing investment in it - you can expect a significant focus on applying cloud architectural patterns and migration strategies

• 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

• Contribute to presales activities, including solutioning, effort estimation, and proposal development, ensuring alignment with client business needs

• Manage capability planning for the team, identifying skill gaps and aligning training or hiring needs to meet future demand

• Develop reusable solutions, frameworks, and assets to accelerate delivery, enhance quality, and enable knowledge sharing across teams

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and bring best practices into solution design

Skills and experiences

• Experience working with stakeholders to create technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs of work that involve platforming/re-platforming Data Solutions within Azure cloud, utilizing tools such as Databricks and Synapse

• 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

• Experience in designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.)

• Proven experience in migrating on-premise Data Warehouses and ETL pipelines to cloud-based DW solutions, particularly Azure and Databricks

• Exposure to Power BI reporting, including data modeling and dashboard/report design to enable business insights and self-service analytics

• Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

· Consultative, collaborative, curious

· Resilient, adaptable, flexible

· Humble leader, strong negotiator, relationship builder

· Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

· People-first culture that supports innovation and encourages people to move forward

· Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that will help clients unlock what’s next

· Opportunities to innovate in the Microsoft platform while charting your own career path

· On-the-job growth through hackathons, innovation contests, and other expressions of our passion for innovating with purpose

· Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Find out more about some of our benefits (1) here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return.

As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities.

You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, but to also lean on your expertise.

You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live.

It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees.

Visit our (2) Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Data & AI team works on check out these case studies:

· (3) thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance

· (4) What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

· (5) Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches

· (6) Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings

Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade?

Check out our blogs:

· (7) Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation

· (8) Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

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We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees.

Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.

Required Skill Profession

It & Technology