Azure Data & AI Platform Architect — Hybrid

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Role Overview:
Data Platform Solution Architect

As a Data Platform Solution Architect, you will collaborate with clients to identify, document, and translate their business strategies and requirements into tailored solutions and services on Azure. These solutions help clients achieve their business objectives through advanced data capabilities. The scope of work includes diverse data types, such as batch, and real‑time data, and leverages advanced analytics functionalities.

We cover the entire data stack, including data ingestion and storage, data modeling, machine learning, and data interaction and visualization, utilizing Microsoft Azure technologies, especially Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks. Additionally, a general understanding of related cloud services, such as APIs, Microservices, and Security Services (Azure Active Directory, Azure Key Vault), is necessary. Familiarity with Dev Ops practices for data pipelines is also valued.

You will be responsible for delivering relevant and sustainable customer technical proposals, drawing on your expertise in Data Platform and Analytics solutions. This role is part of the Avanade Data & AI Practice and emphasizes selecting the optimal architecture and delivery approach to balance costs, capabilities, and risks, ensuring clients achieve their desired business outcomes.

As a technical counterpart to Business Developers and Account Leads, you will support sales by providing technical expertise, serving as a customer interface for Avanade’s technology solutions, offerings, and capabilities throughout the sales process.

• Develop technical value propositions that address customer needs and differentiate Avanade positively.
• Create technical architectures tailored to client requirements.
• Build technical relationships with customer IT teams, mapping business and technology challenges to effective Data solutions.
• Lead scope definition, approach, and estimation for technical proposal development activities.
• Support negotiation and contracting by balancing scope, resources, and milestone requirements.
• Analyze current business practices, processes, and procedures, while identifying future opportunities to leverage Microsoft Azure Data & Analytics PaaS and SaaS Services.
• Identify and prioritize in‑demand technical skills for Delivery Teams to guide training and development efforts.

This is a hybrid role that combines remote work with regular client engagement. The successful candidate must be fluent in both French and English and be comfortable traveling to client locations as business needs require.

As a AI Adoption & Transformation Consultant, you will guide enterprise clients through the people side of AI transformation. Working at the intersection of business strategy, organizational change management, employee experience, and Microsoft Copilot adoption, you will help clients identify high‑value use cases, accelerate workforce readiness, drive behavioral change, and realize measurable business outcomes from AI investments.

You will work directly with executives, business leaders, and technology stakeholders to shape transformation strategies, facilitate AI adoption programs, and build scalable approaches that help organizations embrace new ways of working.

Partner with executive and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and evaluate AI and Copilot opportunities.

Develop adoption roadmaps aligned to business objectives and workforce transformation goals.

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