Nasstar is looking for a Data & AI Solutions Architect. In this role, you will design modern, scalable, secure, and cost-effective Data & AI solutions built on Microsoft technologies. You will bridge business outcomes and technical delivery by leading discovery, defining architectures, producing designs, and guiding engineering teams, with a focus on Azure-first, PaaS/SaaS-led solutions leveraging services like Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Fabric.
What You'll Do
- Lead client discovery workshops, capture business goals and constraints, and translate them into solution options and recommendations.
- Design end-to-end Azure solutions (data, analytics and GenAI), define patterns, and produce high-level designs and diagrams.
- Guide engineers (C#/.NET/Python), drive design reviews, and ensure quality, security, observability, performance and cost controls are built in.
- Support pre-sales proposals and delivery planning; contribute to reusable assets and standards; help grow toward a future Capability/Team Lead role.
What We're Looking For
- A 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.
Technical Stack
- C#, .NET, Python
- Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry
- Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid
- Power BI
Team & Environment
You will support Nasstar’s Data & AI Apps practice. This position includes an opportunity to develop into a Capability/Team Lead role.
Benefits & Compensation
- 25 days’ holiday (excluding bank holidays) + Your Birthday Off
- Flexible working
- Virtual working
- Top tech
- 4x annual salary life assurance
- Private Medical Insurance (PMI)
- Retail discounts and other perks from major brands
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position.
Nasstar is an equal opportunity employer.
