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Solution Area Lead-Infrastructure/Azure Platform

Avanade
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Lead · 15+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago

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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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

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