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Data Platform Solution Architect

Role Overview: Data Platform Solution Architect

As a Data Platform Solution Architect, you will collaborate with clients to identify, document, and translate their business strategies and requirements into tailored solutions and services on Azure.

These solutions help clients achieve their business objectives through advanced data capabilities.

The scope of work includes diverse data types, such as batch, and real‑time data, and leverages advanced analytics functionalities.

We cover the entire data stack, including data ingestion and storage, data modeling, machine learning, and data interaction and visualization, utilizing Microsoft Azure technologies, especially Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks.

Additionally, a general understanding of related cloud services, such as APIs, Microservices, and Security Services (Azure Active Directory, Azure Key Vault), is necessary.

Familiarity with Dev Ops practices for data pipelines is also valued.

You will be responsible for delivering relevant and sustainable customer technical proposals, drawing on your expertise in Data Platform and Analytics solutions.

This role is part of the Avanade Data & AI Practice and emphasizes selecting the optimal architecture and delivery approach to balance costs, capabilities, and risks, ensuring clients achieve their desired business outcomes.

As a technical counterpart to Business Developers and Account Leads, you will support sales by providing technical expertise, serving as a customer interface for Avanade’s technology solutions, offerings, and capabilities throughout the sales process.

• Key Role Responsibilities
• Develop technical value propositions that address customer needs and differentiate Avanade positively.
• Create technical architectures tailored to client requirements.
• Build technical relationships with customer IT teams, mapping business and technology challenges to effective Data solutions.
• Lead scope definition, approach, and estimation for technical proposal development activities.
• Support negotiation and contracting by balancing scope, resources, and milestone requirements.
• Analyze current business practices, processes, and procedures, while identifying future opportunities to leverage Microsoft Azure Data & Analytics Paa S and Saa S Services.
• Identify and prioritize in‑demand technical skills for Delivery Teams to guide training and development efforts.

This is a hybrid role that combines remote work with regular client engagement. The successful candidate must be fluent in both French and English and be comfortable traveling to client locations as business needs require.

AI Adoption & Transformation Consultant

As a AI Adoption & Transformation Consultant, you will guide enterprise clients through the people side of AI transformation.

Working at the intersection of business strategy, organizational change management, employee experience, and Microsoft Copilot adoption, you will help clients identify high‑value use cases, accelerate workforce readiness, drive behavioral change, and realize measurable business outcomes from AI investments.

You will work directly with executives, business leaders, and technology stakeholders to shape transformation strategies, facilitate AI adoption programs, and build scalable approaches that help organizations embrace new ways of working.

What You’ll Do

Partner with executive and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and evaluate AI and Copilot opportunities.

Develop adoption roadmaps aligned to business objectives and workforce transformation goals.

Help clients establish AI governance, readiness, and value realization strategies.

Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical business outcomes.

Lead Adoption & Change Programs

Assess organizational readiness, stakeholder needs, change impacts, and adoption barriers.

Design and execute enterprise‑wide adoption strategies for Microsoft Copilot and AI‑enabled solutions.

Develop communications, engagement, training, and reinforcement plans to drive sustained behavioral change.

Facilitate executive workshops, stakeholder alignment sessions, and transformation planning activities.

Enable Business Value Realization

Define adoption metrics, success criteria, and value measurement frameworks.

Monitor adoption progress and recommend improvements based on user feedback and usage insights.

Help clients connect AI adoption efforts to productivity, employee experience, and business performance outcomes.

Create executive‑ready narratives that communicate progress, impact, and opportunities for continued growth.

Build Scalable Adoption Programs

Design champion networks, enablement programs, and change acceleration initiatives.

Develop repeatable playbooks, toolkits, training assets, and governance approaches.

Support organizations as they scale AI adoption across business units, geographies, and workforce populations.

UK Accenture Microsoft Business Group (AMBG) Lead Security Architect

The UK Accenture Microsoft Business Group (AMBG) Lead Security Architect is a pivotal role that blends market, sales and solutioning, people, and delivery excellence.

Reporting to the UKI AMBG Security Lead, this role owns Solutioning and Delivery of all Microsoft Security work in the AMBG channel, working with some of the largest Enterprise customers in UK and globally.

This role is responsible for defining and driving existing and new offerings and capabilities that seize market advantage and business growth, supporting sales development and conversion through solutioning and delivery including supporting and guiding the AMBG Security architects and delivery teams with new solutions and delivery challenges.

This role is responsible for ensuring the needs of the AMBG channel for Microsoft Security solutions, and delivery are met, to support client accounts and Integrated Go‑to‑Market Lines of Business and Plays.

This role is responsible for ensuring that the AMBG channel has the right capabilities, skillsets, and certifications required to deliver client work both today and tomorrow, including demand and opportunity management processes.

• What you’ll do
• Thought leadership
• Sales, Solutioning, and Delivery
• Create and Evolve GTM Assets and Solutions
• Establish internal and client facing relationships, building a strong network and trust

Be a brand ambassador, representing AMBG Security in the market and with our clients and partners.

Associate / Analyst – Modern Workplace Practice

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Associate / Analyst to join our Modern Workplace Practice.

This role is ideal for individuals with experience in Power Platform and/or Share Point who are looking to develop their skills in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Generative AI technologies.

As an Associate / Analyst, you will work alongside experienced consultants, engineers and solution architects to design, build and support AI‑powered business solutions.

You will help create intelligent agents, automate processes, enhance knowledge management solutions and contribute to innovative client engagements that leverage Microsoft 365, Power Platform and Copilot technologies.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to build expertise in one of Microsoft’s fastest‑growing technology areas while contributing to real‑world business transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, build and maintain Copilot Studio agents and conversational experiences.
• Develop and optimise topics, prompts, actions and knowledge sources.
• Test, troubleshoot and improve agent performance and user experience.
• Support the integration of Copilot Studio with Microsoft 365, Share Point and Power Platform solutions.
• Power Platform Development
• Develop and enhance Power Apps, Power Automate workflows and Dataverse solutions.
• Assist in delivering low‑code business applications and automation solutions.
• Support integration between Microsoft platforms and business systems.
• Configure and maintain Share Point sites, libraries and content repositories.
• Assist in structuring content, metadata and information architecture to support AI‑driven knowledge experiences.
• Ensure knowledge sources are maintained and optimised for retrieval and accuracy.
• Client & Project Support
• Participate in requirements gathering workshops and discovery activities.
• Assist in documenting business requirements, user stories and solution designs.
• Support testing, deployment and hypercare activities during project delivery.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative business solutions.
• Continuously develop skills in Copilot Studio, Power Platform and Generative AI technologies.
• Contribute reusable assets, accelerators and best practices.
• Participate in internal communities of practice, training programmes and knowledge‑sharing initiatives.

Requirements

• Experience with Power Platform, including Power Apps and/or Power Automate.
• Experience using or administering Share Point Online.
• Understanding of Microsoft 365 services and collaboration platforms.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Passion for learning emerging technologies and AI solutions.
• Exposure to Copilot Studio, chatbots or conversational AI technologies.
• Experience with Dataverse and Microsoft APIs/connectors.
• Understanding of Generative AI concepts and prompt engineering.
• Experience delivering client‑facing technology solutions.
• Microsoft certifications in Power Platform, Microsoft 365 or related technologies.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build hands‑on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio and AI technologies.
• Structured career development and learning pathways in Copilot Studio and Generative AI.
• Access to industry‑leading training, certifications and mentoring programmes.
• Exposure to innovative client projects across multiple industries.
• Collaboration with experienced consultants, architects and AI specialists.
• A supportive and inclusive culture that encourages learning, innovation and professional growth.
• Clear progression opportunities from Associate Analyst through to Consultant and Solution Architect roles.
• Flexible and modern ways of working with access to the latest Microsoft technologies.
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