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 60,000 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. Come join us 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. What you'll do * 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 Skills and experiencesss * 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. About you 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 Enjoy your career Some 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. 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 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 Visible links 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-avanade