Data & AI Solutions Architect

Data & AI Solutions Architect

Department: Microsoft

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Remote, UK

Description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.