Senior Cloud Azure Architect

Job Description

Summary

Are you an Azure Infrastructure Solution Architect? Fantastic We are looking for someone who enjoys working with Microsoft technologies on fun and challenging projects together with a fantastic team of passionate and inspiring colleagues. You will join our Cloud Infrastructure team, full of professionals who are all committed to pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals

You will work in an agile environment with some of the best Microsoft consultants globally. Together with your colleagues, you will be working on highly complex projects for some of the most well-known companies, and you will be responsible for developing highly complex solutions, all while developing your own career. With a focus on the newest technology, we strive towards building new and exciting solutions for our clients while encouraging them to work with cutting-edge technology.

Our Applications and Infrastructure team plays an instrumental part in doing what Avanade does best: delivering outstanding, complex projects with global impact and helping our clients transform their businesses through digital innovation. We are a fast-growing, diverse group of more than 150 passionate enthusiasts and specialists in Microsoft technologies. We actively encourage learning, focus on progress and acknowledge, and reward quality. We're ambitious, curious, and want to bring on more people with a similar passion for technology.

At Avanade, everyone has a career advisor who works with you to create a plan and guides you in choosing from the many training opportunities we offer, as well as being a mentor in making sure you thrive and feel valued.

Together we do what matters

Key Responsabilities:

• Deliver with excellence and become a trusted technical advisor to our clients.
• Lead implementation s of Azure solutions at our customers, work in projects that utilize the full breadth of the Azure platform with both IaaS and PaaS, which are deployed with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code in an automated way.
• Perform End-to-end solution shaping and solution architecture for Cloud T ransformation, including estimation, solution planning and SOW to create the optimal customer outcome.
• Work closely with Sales, tailoring and shaping our proposition to the customers' IT and business leadership for our largest Enterprise Accounts.
• Help clients understand cloud-oriented practices and approaches including DevOps, PaaS, containers, Kubernetes, Hybrid cloud, migration and modernization of applications using cloud and Big Data.
• Drive the creation of the value case for the client's business challenges that would most benefit from migration to the Microsoft platform

Qualification

Experience Required for Success:

• Great communication and interpersonal skills - you're working directly with clients, alongside a team of consultants, or within a client team. You're good at communicating hard concepts so everyone understands.
• Take technical ownership of client delivery and have, the ability to prioritize and plan ahead, manage deliverables, scope and timelines, manage client expectation and communication.
• Ability to successfully manage large-scale, complex deal cycles at enterprise accounts. We're looking for candidates who also have these additional preferred skills and q ualifications:
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Enterprise Scale. IaC focused and strong technologist desired: Azure DevOps, Terraform & Kubernetes
• Demonstrated design and transformation al leadership in enterprise digital architecture, including industry specific platforms and services enabling integration and delivery of multi-speed IT
• Relevant technology business leadership experience in areas such as solution pre-sales, architecture, and project delivery. You likely also have experience of demonstrated people and/or business leadership experience, particularly leading consultants.
• Familiar with agile practices, able to deliver results within a scrum project.

About you

• Analytical, curious, agile
• Team player and good communicator
• P roblem-solver, patient, quality-driven
• Self-motivatin g
• Innovative mindset