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As a Lead Solution Architect within our Data & AI Practice, you'll leverage a client-centric approach to understand our client’s challenges and opportunities to deliver solutions and services that make transformative change and deliver high value business 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 using data platforms, reporting, self-service analytics, real time intelligence and AI engineering.
Using the power of modern data platforms, visualizations, advanced analytics, machine learning, IOT/Digital Twins and applied intelligence, we help clients gain business insights to optimize their operations, drive innovation, and make more empowered decisions.
Together we do what matters
As an 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
Design and implement Purview solutions (catalog, classification, lineage, access governance)
Define governance standards, metadata models, and stewardship workflows. Design and Integrate Purview with Azure, Databricks, Postgres and other platforms. Partner with business and engineering teams to drive governance adoption and resolve issues
Establish best data governance practices, reusable patterns, and governance operating processes
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Characteristics that can spell success for this role
You are passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients
You likely possess an advanced degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, or machine learning. At Avanade we also support an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Proven success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required Extensive experience working with large complex enterprise accounts architecting cloud solutions for data estate workloads and implementing large scale data projects within the cloud environment
You are acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence remote teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects
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Resilient, adaptable, flexible
Humble leader, master negotiator, relationship builder
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Some of the best things about working at Avanade:
Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you
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Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation, Avanade has more certifications, Gold-level competencies and most valued professionals (MVPs) than any other Microsoft partner. Every day, our 60,000 professionals in 26 countries innovate responsibly to make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.
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Compensation at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted on 02/15/2026 and open for at least 30 days.
Avanade offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
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California - $150,400 - $194,000 Cleveland - $139,200 - $174,000 Colorado - $139,200 - $174,000 District of Columbia - $155,000 - $194,000
Miane - $139,200 - $174,000 Illinois - $150,400 - $188,000 Maryland - $155,000 - $194,000 Massachusetts - $155,000 - $194,000 Minnesota - $139,200 - $174,000 New York / New Jersey - $164,800 - $200,000
Virginia Washington - $155,000 - $194,000
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