AI Architect

Company: Avanade
Location: Elkins Park
Posted on: November 30, 2025

Job Description:

As we continue to build our diverse, inclusive and collaborative culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. We are therefore looking for an AI Architect. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also 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! Together we do what matters. The successful candidate will help manage, build, and enable our AI with Gen AI offering and directly support accelerated growth across our Regions by driving client impact, showcasing technical leadership and advancing our clients ability to achieve business outcomes. You will partner globally to support sales; design, solution, and engineer solutions; develop assets; help grow our talent; and implement solutions for our clients. As an AI Architect, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable AI and Gen AI solutions aligned to a business strategy and benefits as well as supporting as an AI technical advisor and SME to help our clients scale their AI programs. You will need to understand how various parts of the business processes, operating systems, and application architectures work together to design a specific AI solution that fits a client’s environmental requirements. The AI Architect takes ownership of technology related aspects of AI across the Microsoft ecosystem. You are proficient in creating AI solutions that enable clients to see the whole picture and provide insightful and accurate analysis that helps to build successful businesses. Passionate and experienced in Conversational AI, solution design, and custom speech models you are fluent in RAG, NLP, and CLU with an understanding of how they can be leveraged in solutions, but also with clients to help on the journey towards Agentic AI. The candidate should be familiar with copilot studio, understand the capabilities around automation as well as how to create agents, what the roadmap towards Agentic AI looks like and how to advice a client on a potential strategy. As AI Architect, subject matter expert and software engineer you will work closely with internal cross-functional teams and clients through sales, solutioning, and delivery to identify, document, and translate business intent and requirements into repeatable, scalable solutions and services that drive client impact and meets desired outcomes You Will: • Translate business requirements to technical solutions using strong business insight and architectural expertise to guide sales, project, and cross-functional teams • Develop overall solution plans and strategic vision for AI and Gen AI, providing a comprehensive roadmap for clients’ needs, including risks, assumptions, and estimates end-to-end • Build relationships with Regional Sales and Practice Leads while working with Solution Architects and Industry Leads to promote assets that services clients’ needs with the balance of costs, capability, and risk to meet clients’ business objectives • Engage with clients’ business and technology teams in discussions to provide outstanding technical solutions to reach their business outcomes • Support and work on Assets and Engineering projects internally to Avanade when needed to continue our differentiated approach within the market Experience Required for Success: • Track record of developing and growing exceptional client relationships with a reputation for delivering a "best in class" end-to-end client experience, preferably in a business consulting (technology focus) environment • Demonstrated experience of turning business use case and requirements to well-engineered technical solutions as a means to unlock our clients needs and outcomes in a repeatable, scalable manner • Applied experience in data science and engineering to solution programs and architect system integration projects using a combination of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, OpenAI, and Copilot Studio as well as RAG, NLP, CLU, and Agentic architecture to guide clients, colleagues, and partners • Proven experience in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders with strong ability to establish relationships with peers virtually, across globally dispersed teams You likely possess a Bachelors degree in a business or technology-related field (though this is not essential to be considered for the role), or an equivalent combination of education and experience. You have 3 years or more of relevant business technology leadership experience, including engineering, solutioning, delivery and direct client engagement particularly within a consultancy. You are fluent in Azure and understand how Gen AI will impact current ways of working for Avanade and clients alike.

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