Data & AI Solutions Architect

The 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., * Client 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.

Do you have experience in Warehouse experience?, * Strong 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.

Pulled from the full job description

• Employee discount
• Private medical insurance, * 25 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.

Nasstar 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.   If you require alternative methods of application or screening, you must approach the employer directly to request this as Indeed is not responsible for the employer's application process.