Senior Consultant, Data Scientist

Our Data Science team is made up of academically accomplished, industry recognized experts - and there's room for more analytical, innovative, client-driven data professionals to join us. If you're passionate about helping clients realize the true value and impact of data science, keep reading. An opportunity on Avanade's Data Science team will help take your career to the next level where you can truly do what matters.

Come join us

As a member of our fast-growing Data Science team, you'll work across Avanade's Analytics practice to build and deploy bespoke, advanced data science solutions for some of the world's leading businesses. Alongside this, our team work across a range of industries building solutions at the cutting edge of NLP, Computer Vision, IoT, ML, AI, and Deep Learning. Join our team and you can help our clients realize the potential of their data.

What you'll do

* Assess client requirements and design analytics solutions based on data analysis, data science, technology, and business process design

Skills and experiences
* Proficiency in Python for data analysis and modeling.
* Familiarity with SQL for querying databases
* Ability to clean, preprocess, and transform raw data.
* Understanding of Azure ML Studio or Azure Databricks (Pyspark)
* Knowledge of statistical concepts (hypothesis testing, confidence intervals).
* Basic knowledge of prompt engineering and fine tuning & Azure OpenAl
* Experience with Azure Al Search & Vector Indexes
* Experience working with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
* Nice to have: Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft CoPilot, Azure Data Factory, Agile, ML Ops/DevOps, and Graph DB's.

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

• Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder

• Resilient, adaptable, flexible

• Intellectually curious and passionate about tech

• Convincing storyteller and engaging content creator

Enjoy your career

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It's all here, so take a closer look! Together we do what matters.

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year (17 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking
• Experimenting courageously
• Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice
• Encouraging boldness
• Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client
• Prioritizing what matters
• Acting as one

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Data Science team works on check out these case studies:

• [3] Thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance

• [4] What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

• [5] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow's innovation

• [6] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

References

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1. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits
2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/thyssenkrupp
4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai
5. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
6. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade