Summary

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.   

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. 
  
Key Responsibilities

• As an AI architect assigned to a client project, you will typically work closely with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, shape deals and propositions, 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 

• Play a key role in Avanade's sales process with the responsibility for shaping the high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with other subject matter experts in the business 

• 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 

• Translate complex technical solutions and present them in different formats; to business decision makers into business outcomes, to Market in engaging video or blog format content, to internal Sales Teams in battle card format 

• Engage in early conversations with the client and/or sales team and support origination and deal qualification, become the trusted advisor.  Prepare and represent the solution in Deal Reviews and play an active role in Orals, Client Presentations, and negotiations discussions with key client buyers 

• Complete pricing, using standard solution architecture processes, methods, estimating, and modelling tools to drive quality and minimize time to solution through process and reuse.  Understand and leverage different Pricing Models and work with Sales Leads to articulate deal pricing.  Ensuring a deal is both winnable and deliverable, mitigating potential risks 

Avanade's AI Engineer role is responsible for developing scalable AI solutions aligned to a business strategy and benefits case.  The role will be to work as part of a team to impact real world problems by delivering technical AI work. To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about Data & AI, a continuous learner, and a strong team player.

Come join us: 

As an AI Engineer, you will help clients understand and extract insight and value from their data using Microsoft AI technologies. Working as part of a team, you will be involved in all phases of AI projects including question/use case formulation, design, research, build, and testing. This role will explore and understand data to build advanced AI solutions.

What you'll do:

• 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

Business Development Manager - Products

Avanade is looking for Business Development Associate Managers who are deal hunters, deal makers, originators, and self-starters who can develop and win new business in a complex consulting environment with sophisticated technology solutions. For this role, we are looking for people with experience in net new sales where you are selling digital transformation and consulting services (e.g., cloud implementation, business applications integration, etc.) to enterprise clients across the Products sector (Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, and Professional Services).

Avanade is looking for Business Development Directors who have superb interpersonal skills and who can establish strong relationships within new & existing clients within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Come join us
There is one in every group - the person who dreams big and has the motivation to bring their ideas to life, even as others might roll their eyes and prefer to play it safe. Are you that person?

Are you the one who isn’t afraid to break the mold and who gets passionate about the power of digital to transform organizations and ways of working? Because we are building teams of people like that to help our clients unlock the power they need now and own what is next.

Together we do what matters.

What you’ll do

• Be focused on the Products market, engaging enterprise clients across Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, and Professional Services. Must be able to drive industry-specific discussions with customers’ C-suite in both business and industry.
• You will be responsible for identifying high-potential transformation deals, leading and running many of the entire sales cycles.
• You will drive new and incremental revenue by prospecting, acquiring, and developing new and fast-growing business with direct clients in your area of expertise.
• You will also work closely with partners driving new business.
• You will build a pipeline for growth and closing business, including statements of work and contracts.
• You will interact with Avanade’s new and current clients, gain referrals from them, and form strong trust relationships that open doors and close deals.
• You will maintain an extensive knowledge of current market conditions, competing offerings, and current penetration of services and solutions.

Avanade is the perfect stage to bring your thoughtful, energetic, and curious approach to technology consulting.

Our talented Azure Platform Practice consists of some of the most dedicated and passionate in the field and we plan to grow! With Avanade, you will be focusing on the Azure Public Cloud, Edge and Hybrid and working with the newest Microsoft technologies on exciting client projects. If you like pushing boundaries by outsmarting challenges, read on! 

Come join us 

The Azure Platform Practice is at the core of Avanade's excellence: delivering high-quality, complex projects with global impact. We focus on building and running reliable and secure cloud foundations - from large-scale landing zones to data and application platforms. We are committed to making our clients' cloud journey smooth - whether it's moving existing systems to help in datacenter exits, or creating new cloud-native solutions, or improving an existing cloud presence. Innovation and client satisfaction are part of our essence. 

Our team is a fast-growing, diverse group of more than 150 passionate enthusiasts and specialists in Azure technologies. We actively acknowledge and reward quality, encourage learning and have a strong focus on the career and development opportunities of all our people, making sure our employees are proud of working at Avanade is central to us!

Together we do what matters. 

What you’ll do  

• Use your deep knowledge of Azure cloud services to design resilient, scalable and secure cloud environments covering the full breadth of the Azure platform

• Design and implement Azure Landing Zones to establish a scalable, secure and compliant foundation for deploying cloud services.

• Lead complex migrations for on-premises infrastructure, applications, and databases to Azure.

• Develop solutions for Edge and Hybrid scenarios by integrating Azure Stack and other technologies to extend Azure capabilities to on-premises environments and edge devices.

• Architect and deploy Cloud Native solutions using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, and Azure DevOps.