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Your RoleThe Solution Architect supports Nasstar’s Data & AI Apps practice by designing modern, scalable, secure and cost-effective Data & AI solutions built on Microsoft technologies.The role bridges business outcomes and technical delivery - leading discovery, defining architectures, producing clear designs, and guiding engineering teams through delivery and production handover.This role is particularly focused on Azure-first, PaaS/SaaS-led solutions leveraging services such as Azure Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, and broader Azure stack. You will work in a consultancy, client-facing environment - comfortable facilitating workshops, translating requirements into solution designs, leading solution technical delivery, and supporting pre-sales through estimations, solution options and value storytelling.As the team grows, there’s an opportunity to develop into a Capability/Team Lead position - helping evolve standards, reusable assets, and mentoring. The role is predominately remote with occasional travel to client sites or Nasstar offices.Key ResponsibilitiesClient discovery & solution shaping – Lead workshops, capture business goals and constraints, and translate them into solution options, trade-offs and recommendations.Architecture & design (Data, AI, and Applications) – Design end-to-end Azure solutions (data, analytics and GenAI), define patterns, and produce clear HLDs and supporting diagrams.Delivery leadership & governance – Guide engineers (C#/.NET/Python), drive design reviews, and ensure quality, security, observability, performance and cost controls are built in.Pre-sales, estimation & capability growth – Support proposals and delivery planning; contribute to reusable assets and standards; help grow toward a future Capability/Team Lead role.Skills, Knowledge and ExpertiseStrong software engineering background with hands-on delivery in C#/.NET and/or Python on Azure.Proven experience designing and delivering Data & AI solutions using Azure PaaS/SaaS services.Client-facing consulting experience: workshops, stakeholder management, translating requirements into solution designs.Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience (Lakehouse/Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time, semantic modelling, Power BI).Experience with Microsoft Foundry / LLMs patterns (RAG, agent workflows, evaluation, safety/guardrails).Integration knowledge (Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid).Architecture skills: systems design, integration patterns, data flow and NFR-driven decision making.Communication: explains complex designs to technical and non-technical audiences; produces clear architecture artefacts.Collaboration and leadership: coaches engineers, drives design reviews and aligns stakeholders.Benefits25 days’ holiday (excluding bank holidays) + Your Birthday Off.Flexible working – it’s important to maintain a work/life balance, as such, we will consider any written request for flexible working.Virtual working – we practice what we preach and empower our people to work remotely.Top tech – Leading services and solutions aren’t just for our clients; we supply best-of-breed software and hardware for all our staff too.4x annual salary life assurance.Private Medical Insurance (PMI).Retail discounts and other perks from major brands.About NasstarNasstar is a cloud service specialist. With an integrated suite of services, we design, implement, and manage multi-cloud solutions, innovative communication tools and high-performance networking to help our customers transform and modernise. Our impressive portfolio of customers in every industry across the globe, are supported by a talented team of technical leads, consultants, Project Managers and everything in between.
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