Lead pre‑sales, solution planning, and solution design for Microsoft Fabric‑centric sales pursuits and strategic accounts.
Shape deals and propositions, including architecture, estimates, commercial inputs, and delivery approach, in collaboration with sales and delivery leadership.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, translating complex Fabric capabilities into clear business value and outcomes.
Provide technical and delivery assurance, addressing delivery risks, quality concerns, and architectural issues when required.
Drive Microsoft partnership engagement at an offering and capability level, influencing roadmap alignment and go‑to‑market activities.
Define and promote best practices for Microsoft Fabric architecture, governance, security, performance, and cost optimisation.
Establish reference architectures, accelerators, and reusable patterns across Fabric workloads (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Real‑Time, Semantic Models).
Contribute thought leadership, points of view, and IP to support global GTM activities.
Coach, mentor, and inspire technical leaders and architects across regions, building a strong Fabric community of practice.
Stay current with Fabric and Azure platform evolution, incorporating new capabilities into client solutions and internal offerings.
Support internal asset development and engineering initiatives to strengthen Avanade’s Fabric differentiation.

Management Consulting or Systems Integrator experience strongly preferred.
Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Data Factory, Spark, Warehousing, Real‑Time Analytics, and Power BI.
Strong understanding of data platform governance, including Microsoft Purview, security, lineage, and metadata management.
Hands‑on experience with data pipeline design, ELT/ETL, data modelling, and analytics architectures.
Experience leading performance tuning, capacity management, and cost optimisation within Fabric environments.
Strong stakeholder management and executive‑level communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to build reusable frameworks, reference architectures, and accelerators.
Experience leading and mentoring senior technical teams and communities.
Proven success building and maintaining strategic partnerships with Microsoft.

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

Manager, ICOE Data & AI Solutions Architect – Data Governance

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