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Application Architect

Our fast, client-focused, dynamic environment wants your consulting management skills and desire to make a difference. Use Avanade’s tech, innovation and leadership to make a genuine human impact. Enjoy seeing an impact on clients, too, as you solve interesting challenges in a way that’s flexible to your approach to work—and life. Chart your own software engineering career path with us.

Come join us

As a senior member of our Nordic Software Engineering team, you’ll leverage a client-centric approach to translate our client’s business strategy into solutions and services that lead to successful, impactful outcomes. You’ll engage in solutioning and support on the most strategic opportunities, intervene on high-risk complex deliveries and contribute to shape the strategic direction around application architecture.

Together we do what matters.

What you’ll do

• Act as a Solution Architect to construct large-scale, complex solutions for clients (solution shaping, estimating, ensuring overall solution and contractual obligations are deliverable)

• Design cloud architecture and complete plans and specifications to develop solutions

• Design and develop Applications architecture (integrated process, applications, data and technology) and solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards

• Provide experienced leadership and technical direction influencing the successful delivery of client projects

• Take an active role in presales activities and planning

• Coach, mentor and motivate team members to influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work

Skills and experiences

• Azure technical engagements (architectural design sessions, Proof of Concepts [PoC])

• Deep technical client-facing architecture discussions with all client stakeholders from engineering to senior-level client executives

• Deep, hands-on design and development background in Cloud and Azure across a wide range of Azure services

• Knowledge and experience on modern applications development paradigms, such as microservices, containerization, Azure Functions (serverless computing) and DevOps practices

• Extensive relevant technology business leadership experience (solution pre-sales, creation, delivery, business management

• Overall understanding of Microsoft solution stack

• Experience working with global project teams

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

• Consultative, collaborative, curious

• Resilient, adaptable, flexible

• Humble leader, master negotiator, relationship builder

• Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• People-first culture that supports innovation and encourages people to move forward

• Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that will help clients unlock what’s next

• Opportunities to innovate in the Microsoft platform while charting your own career path

• On-the-job growth through hackathons, innovation contests, and other expressions of our passion for innovating with purpose

• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

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 our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but to also 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.

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Apply today if the role sounds interesting! We can't wait to hear from you and tell you more about Avanade!