Microsoft Cloud, Data and AI Solution Architect
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Job Summary
Job Description
Our Microsoft Cloud Data & AI team helps organisations accelerate value from Microsoft Cloud by designing pragmatic secure and scalable architectures for data and AI-enabled solutions. We often work in collaboration with our other specialist teams in Dynamics Finance and Operations Security and Cyber. We combine deep technical expertise delivery discipline and business acumen to achieve measurable outcomes. The team is growing rapidly and this role is key to ensuring the quality and consistency of what we deliver.
Your Opportunity
As a Solution Architect you will own end-to-end architecture for Microsoft Cloud Data and AI solutions often extending into other elements of the Microsoft stack. You will lead design guide implementation and assure quality across build integration security and operations. You will work closely with delivery leads engineers and client stakeholders to translate business problems into well-architected solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery and requirements workshops translating business needs into architecture decisions and delivery roadmaps.
- Create reference architectures and reusable patterns for data platforms analytics and AI workloads on Azure.
- Define non-functional requirements - including security privacy reliability performance cost and operability - and ensure these are engineered into solutions from the outset.
- Guide data architecture across ingestion modelling and governance including medallion and Fabric-native patterns.
- Design AI solution components including model selection prompt engineering RAG patterns vector search and guardrails.
- Oversee detailed design and support engineering teams through delivery code reviews and design authority forums.
- Establish CI/CD IaC and DevSecOps standards using Azure DevOps or GitHub including automated testing and policy as code.
- Collaborate with security networking and platform teams to align with landing zone identity and compliance requirements.
- Stay across emerging Microsoft capabilities and bring practical recommendations to clients and internal teams on where and how to apply them.
- Contribute to presales and sales through solutioning estimation and technical proposals.
How are you extraordinary
- You articulate complex architecture simply and align stakeholders on clear decisions.
- You are hands-on enough to earn the respect of engineers while staying focused on outcomes and quality.
- You continuously learn and apply emerging Microsoft capabilities to real client problems.
- You balance technical rigour with pragmatism - you know when good enough is the right answer.
Your Experience
- Experienced in architecting endtoend Microsoft solutions on Azure with strong depth across data and AI.
- Deep expertise across several of the following with working knowledge across the rest:
- Data Platform - Data Factory Synapse Databricks on Azure Azure SQL Cosmos DB Azure Data Lake Storage Event Hubs Microsoft Fabric Purview.
- AI & ML - Azure Machine Learning Azure AI Services Azure OpenAI Service Foundry vector databases and Azure AI Search prompt engineering RAG and LLMOps.
- Analytics - Power BI semantic models real-time analytics.
- M365 co-pilot Team Sharepoint and leveraging it as a collaboration capability with other Microsoft services
- Solid understanding of security and governance: identity and access management networking private endpoints encryption data classification policy and compliance.
- Proficiency in IaC and CI/CD: Bicep or Terraform GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines reusable modules and environment strategies.
- Experience with cost optimisation and observability: Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights FinOps practices.
- Familiarity with integration patterns microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams alongside engineers delivery managers and other architects.
Qualifications
- Relevant degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field or equivalent industry experience.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Additional certifications in Data or AI are preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Additional Information :
KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges steer change and enable growth.
Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate highly skilled professionals whove got your back. Youll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive equitable culture.
At KPMG youll take control over how you work. Were embracing a new way of working in many ways from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks including retail discounts health and wellbeing initiatives learning and growth opportunities salary packaging options and more.
Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application please contact the Talent Attraction Support Team.
At KPMG every career is different and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.
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Full-time
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