Microsoft Data Team Lead

About Accenture's Microsoft Business Group (MBG):

Our Microsoft Business Group brings together around 120 Microsoft practitioners and experts in Ireland, supported by colleagues across the UK, Europe and our offshore teams.

As one of Ireland’s leading Microsoft partners, we work at the forefront of technology transformation, helping enterprise clients across industries get the most from the Microsoft ecosystem. Our people work on complex, innovative programmes while benefiting from a deep, long-standing relationship with Microsoft and continued investment in their skills, development and training.

It’s a collaborative community of Microsoft specialists where you can work with great people, deepen your expertise and build a career around some of the most exciting technology in the market.

Role overview: We are seeking a senior leader to drive the growth and maturity of the Microsoft Data practice through capability development, recruitment, mentoring, asset creation and thought leadership. This senior client-facing practice leadership role will connect business priorities, data governance, analytics and AI ambitions from our clients to pragmatic target architectures and executable roadmaps, shaping enterprise data strategy and leading the architecture of complex Microsoft cloud data platforms.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and develop architecture and engineering capability across teams.
• Guide clients in establishing data foundations required to support advanced analytics, machine learning, generative AI and agentic architectures
• Advise senior client stakeholders, shape business proposals and estimates, and connect data foundations to analytics, AI and agentic use cases.
• Oversee architectural consistency, quality and strategic alignment across multiple client engagements and delivery programmes
• Define current-state assessments, target architectures, transition roadmaps and architecture principles for enterprise data platforms.
• Lead design across ingestion, lakehouse, warehouse, semantic, master-data, metadata, governance and data-serving capabilities.
• Select fit-for-purpose patterns across Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks and the broader enterprise ecosystem, and non-functional design for security, privacy, sovereignty, resiliency, performance, scalability and cost.
• Chair design governance, manage architecture risk and assure delivery across multiple workstreams or programmes.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Excellent consulting, communication, commercial and people-leadership skills.
• Track record of leading teams and complex programmes, influencing executives and governing architecture at scale.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise data architecture and cloud-transformation initiatives within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Deep understanding of data modelling, distributed data processing, integration, governance and analytical architecture.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure data platforms and modern cloud-native architectural patterns

Desirable: Fabric Enterprise Architecture (DP-700), Enterprise AI Architecture, Purview, Databricks, data mesh or domain-oriented architecture, FinOps for Data Platforms real-time analytics, AI platform architecture and advanced Microsoft certifications.

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