Azure Platform Architecture Practice Lead

Join Avanade as the Azure Platform People Lead for Iberia and shape a thriving, inclusive, and future-ready community of Azure professionals. You will lead the people and capability agenda , ensuring that our talent, skills, and capacity are aligned with current and emerging business demand.

Combining strong people leadership with credible Azure Platform and Generative AI knowledge, you will develop adaptable talent, strengthen critical capabilities, improve chargeability, and create an environment where practitioners can grow and deliver their best work. You will ensure the practice is prepared to support profitable and deliverable opportunities, while bringing fresh ideas for applying GenAI across Azure Platform solutions, assets, engineering practices, and ways of working.

Join us

As Azure Platform People Lead for Iberia, you will own the operational people and capability agenda . You will anticipate workforce needs, develop and deploy talent, and maintain a clear view of skills, availability, and chargeability so the team is ready to respond to evolving demand.

Working closely with the Solution Area Lead, sales, solutioning, delivery, Microsoft, Accenture, and internal stakeholders, you will translate strategic priorities and demand signals into practical workforce and capability actions. You will foster a strong sense of community, promote technical excellence and knowledge reuse, and accelerate responsible adoption of GenAI across the practice.

Key Responsibilities

Own the people and capability agenda for the Azure Platform Practice in Iberia, covering workforce planning, skills assessment, learning, certifications, career development, succession, engagement, retention, and the development of future leaders.

Anticipate capability and capacity needs by translating market and client demand into practical build, hire, borrow, and deploy actions, addressing critical skill gaps through targeted upskilling, cross-skilling, recruitment, and internal mobility.

Own practice-level chargeability and utilization , proactively matching people and capabilities to demand, managing availability and staffing risks, and selecting professionals with the technical foundation, learning agility, and adaptability required for future Azure Platform work.

Partner with sales, solutioning, and delivery teams to provide early visibility of capability readiness, staffing assumptions, reusable assets, delivery constraints, and technical risks, helping ensure opportunities are profitable and deliverable without owning commercial growth or the delivery management function.

Shape and promote the use of Generative AI across the Azure Platform Practice, identifying and mobilizing ideas that improve engineering productivity, platform operations, solution design, knowledge reuse, asset creation, and client outcomes, while encouraging responsible adoption.

Build a visible and inclusive practice community that connects practitioners across Iberia, strengthens collaboration with Microsoft, Accenture, and global capability communities, promotes technical excellence, and monitors outcomes such as capability readiness, certifications, engagement, retention, staffing predictability, and quality.

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Significant experience leading people, capabilities, or technical communities in a consulting or professional services environment, with accountability for workforce planning, talent development, staffing, utilization , and chargeability.

Demonstrated ability to build high-performing, inclusive teams and communities through coaching, career development, performance support, succession planning, engagement, retention, and the identification of adaptable talent.

Strong business awareness and experience partnering with sales, solutioning, and delivery teams to convert demand forecasts into capability plans and provide early visibility of staffing assumptions, delivery dependencies, reusable assets, and technical risks.

Broad and credible knowledge of Azure Platform, cloud engineering, governance, security, automation, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud modernization, with the ability to guide specialists, assess capability priorities, and connect technical evolution to workforce needs.

Practical knowledge of Generative AI, AI-assisted engineering, and agentic solutions, together with the curiosity and creativity to propose how GenAI can enhance Azure Platform offerings, delivery methods, reusable assets, knowledge management, and practitioner productivity.

A strategic, capability-led, and business-aware mindset, with strong analytical , communication, and stakeholder management skills and the ability to operate effectively across Iberia in a highly matrixed organization.

About you

A people-first, collaborative , and trusted leader who creates clarity, belonging, accountability, and strong relationships across teams and stakeholders .

Passionate about developing people and building future-ready capabilities, with a continuous learning mindset and the judgement to balance immediate deployment needs with longer-term capability investment.

An effective communicator and influencer, comfortable engaging practitioners, technical leaders, and senior business stakeholders and turning strategy into clear, practical actions .

Data-informed and results-oriented, able to use workforce, skills, staffing, utilization , and engagement insights to prioritize interventions and improve practice readiness.

Curious and forward- looking about Generative AI, willing to experiment responsibly, contribute original ideas, and inspire the community to apply AI in meaningful ways across Azure Platform.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits here .

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise . You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

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