Data Architect (APAC)

Avanade

3.9

(23)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Why you should apply for a job to Avanade:

  • 4.3/5 in supportive management
  • 70% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 78% would recommend this company to other women
  • 82% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • STEM Scholarship programs with nine Universities worldwide investing in the future of young women.
  • Five Employee Resource Groups including women's, LGBT+, and Veterans to name a few.
  • World-class training including an average of 80 hours a year for employees to develop their skill set.
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    Position summary

    working with stakeholders to create technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps for large programs of work that involve platforming/re-platforming Data Solutions within Azure cloud, utilizing tools such as Databricks and Synapse

    • Capability in creating design artifacts and presenting them for approval at architectural forums attended by multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to senior (“C level”) client executives

    • Experience in designing and delivering large-scale Data Platform solutions using relevant approaches (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Cloud Scale Analytics, etc.)

    • Proven experience in migrating on-premise Data Warehouses and ETL pipelines to cloud-based DW solutions, particularly Azure and Databricks

    • Exposure to Power BI reporting, including data modeling and dashboard/report design to enable business insights and self-service analytics

    • Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security, and reliability

    • Domain knowledge in Banking or Telecommunications, with a strong understanding of industry-specific data practices, regulatory considerations, and business use cases

    What you'll do

    • As an architect assigned to a client project, you will typically work closely with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts

    • Assist clients in their journey to Microsoft Azure or leverage their existing investment in it - you can expect a significant focus on applying cloud architectural patterns and migration strategies

    • As a senior member of the Avanade technical community, you will provide coaching and mentoring to motivate and inspire more junior colleagues from within your team and across the organization

    • Contribute to presales activities, including solutioning, effort estimation, and proposal development, ensuring alignment with client business needs

    • Manage capability planning for the team, identifying skill gaps and aligning training or hiring needs to meet future demand

    • Develop reusable solutions, frameworks, and assets to accelerate delivery, enhance quality, and enable knowledge sharing across teams

    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and bring best practices into solution design

    Learn more

    Learn more

    To learn more about the types of projects our Data & AI team works on check out these case studies:

    • thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance

    • What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

    • Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches

    • Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings

    Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

    • Avanade Insights – exchange ideas that drive tomorrow's innovation

    • Inside Avanade – explore what life is like working at Avanade

    Enjoy your career

    Some of the best things about working at Avanade

    • Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with 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

    Find out more about some of our benefits Employee Benefits at Avanade | Avanade

    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 communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to 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!

    We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.

    Create a future for our people that focuses on

    • Expanding your thinking
    •Experimenting courageously
    •Learning and pivoting

    Inspire greatness in our people by

    • Empowering every voice
    •Encouraging boldness
    •Celebrating progress

    Accelerate the impact of our people by

    • Amazing the client
    •Prioritizing what matters
    •Acting as one

    Why you should apply for a job to Avanade:

  • 4.3/5 in supportive management
  • 70% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 78% would recommend this company to other women
  • 82% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • STEM Scholarship programs with nine Universities worldwide investing in the future of young women.
  • Five Employee Resource Groups including women's, LGBT+, and Veterans to name a few.
  • World-class training including an average of 80 hours a year for employees to develop their skill set.