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Avanade Inc. Artificial Intelligence Architect in Newcastle, United Kingdom
Artificial Intelligence Architect
Our talented Data & AI Practice is made up of globally recognised experts - and there’s room for more analytical and ambitious AI 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 AI Solution Architect, you bring expert-level knowledge in support of sales motions and project execution across Avanade's Data & AI portfolio, with a specific focus on AI systems leveraging the breadth of Azure AI services available. Key to this role is a comprehensive understanding of the applications of AI and data science to solve business problems and deliver business value. The successful individual will be able to work with clients to elicit and understand their needs and communicate AI concepts and approaches in an articulate and business-relevant manner in order to help achieve business outcomes. To be successful, the individual must be able to work effectively with a multi-disciplinary team consisting of business stakeholders, product owners, engineers, and data scientists. Together we do what matters.
What you’ll do
Translate business requirements and goals to AI solutions leveraging strong business acumen and AI engineering expertise
Analyse current business practices, processes, and procedures to identify areas in which the application of AI would benefit the client
Provide high-level and detailed architectural expertise in pre-sales and project delivery, to design and implement AI solutions
Identify risks, document assumptions, and develop work effort estimates and implementation plans to realise the designs you have created
Build relationships with other Avanade Solution Architects and collaborate on promoting solution architecture best practices for AI projects across the company
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 organisation
Skills and experiences
Proven experience specifying architecture and commercial models that address business needs while balancing cost, capability, and risk
Strong understanding of the value proposition associated with AI
Experience with some combination of Azure ML/AI, Power Platform AI, Databricks Mosaic AI, OpenAI, other similar cloud AI frameworks and platforms
Experience with MLOps application lifecycle management, CI/CD automation, and operational monitoring and maintenance.
Ability to lead a team of software developers in the development of AI solutions considering among other things; security, scalability, ethics, data governance
Able to explain complex analytical methodologies and concepts in non-technical language
Experience working with stakeholders to create technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs
About you
Characteristics that can spell success for this role
Consultative, collaborative, curious
Resilient, adaptable, flexible
Humble leader, master 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 will 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] What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future
[4] Mangata Networks enters strategic partnership with Avanade to co-develop global Microsoft AI-enabled edge-to-cloud services with satellite connectivity
[5] PageGroup uses Gen Ai for job hunt case study
Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:
[6] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation
[7] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade
References
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https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits
https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai
https://www.mangatanetworks.com/news/mangata-networks-enters-strategic-partnership-with-avanade-to-co-develop-global-microsoft-ai-enabled-edge-to-cloud-services-with-satellite-connectivity
https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/pagegroup-generative-ai-job-search
https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade