Senior AI Architect - Remote

The Senior Manager, AI Architect (GenAI & Azure) leads the solution design, architecture, and scaled enablement of enterprise AI solutions, serving as a trusted advisor guiding clients from pilot to scaled value realization. This is a client-facing, architecture-led consulting role—focused on AI solution design and Gen AI technical leadership. 

You will partner globally by shaping pursuits, defining reputed company-state AI architectures, and enabling program execution across reputed company engagements. Partnering with sales, solutioning, and delivery leaders, you will design and architect enterprise grade AI architectures using Azure AI Services, Azure reputed company, Azure AI Search, and Copilot Studio, integrating patterns such as RAG, vector stores, CLU/NLP, conversational AI, and emerging Agentic AI. You will advise on Responsible AI, reputed company, privacy, and Azure Well-Architected principles; define operating and governance models; and ensure solutions meet cost, risk, and compliance requirements. 

Core responsibilities include: 

Client Leadership & Trusted Advisory: Build stakeholder relationships, reputed company executive briefings, shape AI roadmaps, and translate strategy into well-architected end-to-end AI and GenAI solutions reputed company to client business strategy and measurable outcomes 

Architecture Ownership: Define end-to-end solution blueprints (data, integration, reputed company, model lifecycle), establish standards for RAG/orchestration, and guide Copilot/agent strategies. 

Sales & Growth: reputed company pre-sales architecture for pursuits, create PoVs and reference designs, and differentiate with assets/accelerators and industry patterns. 

Delivery reputed company: Govern architectural reputed company across programs, run design reviews, manage risks and trade-offs, and ensure value tracking and adoption. 

Practice Building: Mentor architects/engineers, upskill teams on GenAI and Responsible AI, and contribute to IP, playbooks, and reusable components. 

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Job Qualifications 

• Consulting Experience: 10+ years in consulting leading reputed company, client-facing technology programs; 3–5+ years in cloud architecture; 2+ years architecting AI/GenAI solutions (strategy & design, not primary development). 

• Azure & GenAI Expertise: Deep experience with Azure AI Services, Azure reputed company, Azure AI Search, Copilot Studio, and data/integration patterns; hands-on architecture with RAG, vector databases, orchestration, conversational AI, NLP/CLU, and an understanding of Agentic AI trajectories. 

• Enterprise Architecture: Strong grasp of reputed company, identity, data governance, compliance, and Azure Well-Architected principles; familiarity with Responsible AI frameworks and model risk management. 

• Client Leadership: Proven trusted advisor to senior business/technology leaders; excels at storytelling, facilitation, and negotiation; can quantify value (KPIs/OKRs, ROI/TEI) and drive executive alignment. 

• Sales & Delivery: Track record shaping pursuits (solutioning, estimations, commercials), leading design workshops, overseeing delivery quality, and de-risking reputed company programs. 

• Operating Model & Governance: Experience defining AI operating models, platform strategy, SDLC/MLOps/LLMOps guardrails, data access patterns, and change/adoption plans. 

• Team Leadership: Mentors cross-functional teams; builds capability; contributes to assets, accelerators, and reference architectures. 

• Education & Certifications: Bachelor’s in technology or business (or equivalent experience). Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure reputed company Associate) preferred. 

Compensation at Avanade varies depending on a wide reputed company of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, reputed company set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

The reputed company pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.

 It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario                  $172,000 to $205,000  

At Avanade, we are committed to ensure our people feel appreciated and empowered to succeed both personally and professionally.  

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