Azure AI Foundry Architect

About the role

Avanade India’s Data & AI practice is looking for an Azure AI Foundry Architect to drive presales solutioning and technical architecture for generative AI and agentic AI solutions built on Azure AI Foundry, stepping into delivery leadership as engagements require.

What you'll do

• Lead presales solutioning for Azure AI Foundry opportunities — architecture proposals, effort estimation, solution demos
• Design end-to-end generative AI and agentic AI solution architectures on Azure AI Foundry, including model catalog selection, Azure OpenAI Service integration
• Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions — grounding data pipelines, vector search/indexing (Azure AI Search)
• Define AI platform strategy, target-state architecture, and adoption roadmaps in collaboration with client stakeholders
• Step into delivery as needed to provide technical leadership on active engagements: solution design, architecture governance, design reviews

What you need

• 12–15 yrs of experience
• Azure
• LLMs
• ETL
• Machine learning
• Prompt engineering
• Azure Data Factory
• Any graduate

Good to have

• MLOps
• CI/CD
• REST APIs
• Office 365
• AWS
• Databricks