Data & AI Solutions Architect - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a talented Data & AI Solutions Architect to join our team at Nasstar. This remote position will allow you to design modern, scalable, secure, and cost-effective Data & AI solutions built on Microsoft technologies. As a Data & AI Solutions Architect, you will bridge business outcomes and technical delivery, leading discovery, defining architectures, producing clear designs, and guiding engineering teams through delivery and production handover.

What You'll Do

• Lead client discovery and solution shaping workshops, capturing business goals and constraints to translate them into solution options, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Design end-to-end Azure solutions (data, analytics, and GenAI), define patterns, and produce clear high-level designs (HLDs) and supporting diagrams.
• Guide engineers in C#/.NET and Python, driving design reviews and ensuring quality, security, observability, performance, and cost controls are integrated.
• Support proposals and delivery planning; contribute to reusable assets and standards; help grow toward a future Capability/Team Lead role.
• Facilitate workshops and translate requirements into solution designs, leading solution technical delivery.

Requirements

• 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, including workshops and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time, semantic modeling, Power BI).
• Integration knowledge (Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid).

Nice to Have

• Experience with Microsoft Foundry and LLMs patterns (RAG, agent workflows, evaluation, safety/guardrails).
• Architecture skills in systems design, integration patterns, data flow, and NFR-driven decision making.
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex designs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What We Offer

• 25 days of holiday (excluding bank holidays) plus your birthday off.
• Flexible working arrangements considered upon request.
• Top tech: best-of-breed software and hardware for all staff.
• 4x annual salary life assurance.
• Private Medical Insurance (PMI) and retail discounts from major brands.