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Azure Generative AI Solution Architect
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About The Role
We're looking for a senior, client-facing architect who has taken Generative AI solutions all the way to production. You'll work with customers from ambiguous early-stage ideas through architecture, proposal, governance and delivery, going deep on the Azure AI platform while bringing in open-source technologies where they provide the best solution.
What You'll Do
- Architect end-to-end Generative and Agentic AI solutions on Azure and open-source technologies, owning technology choices and trade-offs.
- Lead discovery with clients, turning unclear or evolving requirements into defined problems, architectures and delivery plans.
- Advise customers on risks and challenges they haven't yet spotted, and on the questions they should be asking.
- Embed AI governance and lifecycle thinking evaluation, responsible AI, content safety, data governance, monitoring and ongoing operation into every design.
- Provide technical leadership on RFIs, RFPs, proposals and SOWs, including solution approach, scope, assumptions, risks and estimation.
Qualifications
What You'll Bring
- Proven delivery of Generative and Agentic AI solutions into production.
- Deep hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search Azure AI Content Safety, and agent orchestration with Azure AI Agent Service, Microsoft Agent Framework or equivalent open-source technologies and frameworks.
- Experience assembling production AI solutions with the surrounding Azure platform such as Functions, Container Apps/AKS, API Management, Cosmos DB and Azure data services, Entra ID and managed identities, and Azure Monitor / Application Insights.
- Command of GenAI patterns: RAG, grounding, orchestration, agent architectures, model selection and enterprise data integration.
- Practical understanding of the AI lifecycle, LLMOps and enterprise AI governance.
- Experience writing technical content for RFIs, RFPs, proposals and SOWs.
- Excellent communication with both executives and engineering teams.
- Azure certifications (AI-103, AI-500, AB-100) are a plus.
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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 (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
- Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
- Collaborate with some of the brightest “Microsoft minds”
- Build your expertise, solve problems, learn, and develop
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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, and 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!
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