Future Opportunity: Azure AI Architect

RECRUITING FOR THE FUTURE

This posting is for a future job opportunity.

To support the needs of our clients, Avanade is actively recruiting and interviewing for the role outlined below, as we continue to build on another year of growth in our business. Now, with more than 6, employees around the globe, we are positioning our organization to effectively prepare for the future. What does this mean for you? We encourage you to apply and interview for this role without the need to decide now. This allows you to connect with leaders and hiring managers at a pace that works for you and when roles become available, you will be the first know.

FUTURE OPPORTUNITY - Azure AI Architect

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.Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

• Sales Mentality: Strong communication and customer facing skills.

• Communicator: Can talk openly and easily about AI use cases in multiple industries (Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Resources, etc.) and articulate ROI

• Prioritization

• Led all task delegation and ownership around prioritization of work.

• Pipeline ownership

• Managed and grew sales pipeline around AI and Machine Learning

• Leadership

• Ran successful team of Data Scientists and AI Architects

• Facilitate team and client meetings and conduct pre-sales presentations to showcase our solutions

• Collaborate closely with our AI, IoT, and Intelligent Automation teams and Solution Architects to translate customer's business requirements into tangible AI value propositions and solution scopes.

• Analyze client processes, identify AI opportunities, and recommend approach based on analysis and client maturity.

• Estimate, solution, design, and help drive and deliver AI deals.

• Help build AI assets and enable internal and external stakeholders while growing capability and delivering high-quality solutions for client

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 Holdingsidentifies 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

References

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1. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits
2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/thyssenkrupp
4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai
5. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/hachette-automated-identification
6. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/marston-holdings
7. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
8. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanadeSome of the best things about working at Avanade
   People-first culture that supports innovationand encourages people to move forward
   Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that willhelp 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.As an Azure AI Architect within our Data and 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.* AI, Machine Learning, Data Science & Analytics (Required: Python, TensorFlow, Neural Networks, Predictive Modeling, LLM

• Design & Build cloud architecture for AI solutions (preferably in Azure)

• Applying data and analytics to business use cases

• Software engineering using DevOps/ MLOps principals (Knowledge of DevOps workflows, Git, containers, CICD, etc.)

• Use validated methods to solve business problems using Azure AI services in combination with building repeatable ML workflow pipelines for CI/CD delivery.

Hands on delivery using Python

• Real-time or near real-time streaming data analytics

• Monitor model performance, identify data drifts and retrain to improve model performance, understand responsible AI guidelines and its impact on AI-based solution design and development.