Databricks Data Platform Solution Architect

Avanade Inc.; City of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking a Databricks Data Platform Solution Architect to engage in strategic solutioning, provide technical leadership, and mentor junior colleagues. You'll be instrumental in shaping deals, driving architectural decisions, and building client relationships as a trusted advisor. If you're passionate about transforming businesses with AI and data technologies, this is the role for you. This position is contract-based and located in London, England.

Responsibilities

• Engage in solutioning and support on strategic opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership and shape architectural decisions.
• Create innovative solutions and contractual details for proposals.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior colleagues.
• Translate complex technical concepts into understandable language.
• Support requirements capture and recommend best practices.
• Participate in client presentations and negotiations.
• Collaborate with leadership to shape current and future offerings.
• Lead the development of intelligent data platform projects.

Job description

Databricks Data Platform Solution Architect

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Our talented Data & AI team is made up of globally recognized experts - and there's room for analytical and ambitious data professionals. If you're passionate about helping clients transform their business with the latest AI and data technologies, let's talk. Take your skills to a new level and launch a career where you can truly do what matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage in solutioning and support on strategic opportunities, intervene in high-risk complex deliveries, and shape the strategic direction using Agentic AI, automation, AI engineering, data platforms, reporting and self-serve analytics.
• 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.
• Play a key role in sales by creating innovative solutions, shaping high-level design, estimates, and contractual details for client proposals.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior colleagues, motivate and inspire them across the organization.
• Translate complex technical concepts into easy-to-understand language and value-based outcomes for senior business stakeholders, technology leaders and internal sales teams.
• Engage early with clients and sales teams to support origination, deal qualification, requirements capture, solutioning, and recommend best practices for optimal outcomes.
• Participate in client presentations, deal reviews, negotiations with key buyers, and build strong client relationships as a trusted advisor.
• Collaborate with Data & AI leadership to shape current and future offerings, accelerators, and background IP to support go-to-market activities.
• Lead the development of intelligent data platform projects, build strategic capabilities for clients, integrate data from many systems, transform through lakehouse architectures, and enable reporting, AI and conversational analytics.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

Location: London, England, United Kingdom