Job Description
The Solution Area Lead Apps & Infrastructure drives growth, delivery excellence, and capability-building for Avanade’s Microsoft-powered application modernization and cloud infrastructure portfolio. You will shape strategy, build high-performing teams, lead complex client engagements, and partner closely with Microsoft to deliver measurable outcomes across cloud adoption, app modernization, DevOps, security, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
Practice & Portfolio Leadership
- Define and execute the Apps & Infra practice strategy aligned to Microsoft Cloud (Azure) and Avanade offerings.
- Own the portfolio across App Modernization, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering/DevOps, Cloud Operations, and Security-by-design.
- Build repeatable offers, accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks for faster, consistent delivery.
- Establish governance for quality, risk, compliance, delivery assurance, and reusable IP.
Client Advisory & Architecture Leadership
- Act as senior advisor to CIO/CTO/Heads of Engineering on:
- Application modernization (rehost/refactor/replatform/rebuild)
- Cloud landing zones and enterprise-scale platform design
- Resiliency, performance, security, and compliance frameworks
- Lead architecture and design reviews for large programs (multi-team, multi-region, regulated environments).
- Drive best practices across Azure Well-Architected, SRE principles, and modern engineering standards.
Growth, Sales & Microsoft Partnership
- Own practice-level pipeline: identify opportunities, shape pursuits, and close deals.
- Lead pre-sales activities: solutioning, estimates, SoWs, proposals, and executive presentations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Microsoft stakeholders; co-sell and co-innovate.
- Develop industry-specific value propositions and demonstrate ROI (cost optimization, time-to-market, resilience, security posture).
Delivery & Program Oversight
- Provide executive oversight for key accounts and programs; ensure delivery to scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes.
- Establish delivery metrics (velocity, quality, stability, availability, cost) and continuously improve.
- Sponsor complex migrations and transformations:
- Datacenter exit / cloud migration
- Hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity
- Enterprise DevSecOps rollouts
People Leadership & Capability Building
- Build, mentor, and scale multi-disciplinary teams (architects, engineers, SRE, DevOps, cloud ops).
- Create career paths, skills matrices, learning plans, and certification targets.
- Drive hiring strategy and talent planning; build a strong bench and partner ecosystem.
Microsoft-Centric Technical Scope (What you’re expected to be strong in)
You don’t need to hands-on code daily, but you must be able to lead design decisions, challenge teams, and speak credibly with senior client stakeholders.
Azure Cloud & Infrastructure
- Azure Landing Zones / enterprise-scale design (identity, network, security, governance)
- Hub-spoke, vWAN, Private Link, DNS, connectivity patterns
- Azure compute (VMs, AKS), storage, Azure SQL, PaaS patterns
- Resilience and DR patterns, multi-region architecture, observability
Application Modernization
- Modernization strategies (6Rs), domain-driven modernization, microservices and event-driven design
- .NET modernization, containerization, API management patterns
- Integration with Microsoft ecosystem (Entra ID, Key Vault, Service Bus/Event Hubs, Functions, Logic Apps)
DevSecOps & Platform Engineering
- GitHub / Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), policy-as-code
- Secure SDLC, secrets management, supply-chain security
Developer platform concepts (golden paths, reusable templates, inner-source
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent experience).
- 15–20+ years in technology consulting, delivery, or engineering leadership with significant Microsoft/Azure depth.
- Proven leadership of large transformation programs and multi-million-dollar pursuits.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
