Solution Area Lead-Infrastructure/Azure Platform

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

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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.

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