Azure Infrastructure Solution Architect

Do you have a strong passion for how the power of technology can be used to solve problems and challenges? So do we.

About the team

Are you an Azure Infrastructure Solution Architect? Fantastic! We are looking for someone who enjoys working with Microsoft technologies in fun and challenging projects together with a fantastic team of passionate and inspiring colleagues. You will be joining our Cloud Infrastructure team of approximately 16 co-workers 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 in Denmark and globally. Together with your colleagues, you will be working on highly complex projects for some of Denmark’s most well-known companies, and you will be responsible for developing highly complex solutions, all while developing your own career. With focus on the newest technology, we strive towards building new and exciting solutions for our clients encouraging them work with cutting edge technology.

At Avanade, all employees no matter the level of experience will have a personal mentor and career advisor who will guide and support you throughout your career journey. We know that our employees are our most valuable asset, and we always thrive towards having fun together both in our daily work and during our social activities after hours.

About you

As a Azure Infrastructure Consultant with us at Avanade, you can use your technical knowledge and consultative personality to harness the power of technology to help solve their business challenges.

You have a depth of experience in a consulting and systems integrator environment, focused on infrastructure modernization and migration to Azure. You have the ability to develop relationships and provide advisory services to C-level executives and experience with sales principles and practices including end-to-end sales lifecycle from origination through to contract closure and project mobilisation. Proven experience in Cloud Transformation and Migration solutions, defining and shaping the delivery approach, working with offshore/nearshore teams, estimating effort to deliver and building resource profiles. Experience working with multi-site delivery teams, offshore / nearshore / onshore. We imagine that you have the following technical skills:

• Cloud Networking
• Azure Compute
• Cloud Governance
• Cloud Identity and Security
• Cloud Operations and Migrations
• Cloud Security
• Azure Architect Level

On-prem infrastructure - high level skills and understandings

With Avanade, you get the opportunity to work with the latest technology in socially beneficial projects, as well as help to reach your full potential so that you grow and develop. We have two parent companies that give us a strong Microsoft ecosystem with space to be ourselves. People who thrive here are motivated, interested in learning and genuinely have a desire to be the best at what they do. If that sounds like you, then we’re the perfect match. You’ll have access to the latest technology in the Microsoft ecosystem, partnering with some of the biggest and best companies across the world and some seriously smart people to work with to make career-defining things happen. If you want to get even better at what you do and transform businesses from the inside out, there’s no better place.

Your development is central to us. We have a strong focus on the career and development opportunities of all our people. 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. Besides work, We do lots of social events, sport clubs, board games events, Friday bars etc. and we love doing things together outside of office hours. We organize social events, dinners, our annual ski trip, and of course our Summer and Christmas party – the list goes on even in these remote working times. We welcome you to an inclusive culture characterized by ambition and innovation.

Is this you or could it be you with a little help from our unlimited learning?

Are you keen on working with Microsoft technology and cloud solutions, then you could be our next colleague helping our clients by making them truly cloud-driven companies?

You will collaborate with project teams in customizing, developing, integrating, and extending best practices within Security to meet client needs. You will guide the customer and your team to develop the optimal solution, which you will then implement. You will contribute across all phases of Avanade projects (e.g., Plan, Analyze, Design, Build and Test). The role will also be responsible for:

• Work closely with Sales, tailoring and shaping our proposition to the customers’ IT and business leadership for our largest Enterprise Accounts.
• Helping clients understand cloud-oriented practices and approaches including DevOps, PaaS, containers, Hybrid cloud, migration and modernization of applications using cloud and Big Data
• Driving the creation of the value case for the client’s business challenges that would most benefit from migration to the Microsoft platform
• Perform End-to-end solution shaping and solution architecture for Cloud Transformation, including estimation, solution planning and SOW to create the optimal customer outcome.
• Gain approval and sign-off for solutions with Avanade’s own internal stakeholders, giving confidence we have the ability to execute and deliver desired outcomes to the customer.
• Present solutions to customer CIO’s, Chief Architect’s and VP’s. Explaining the solution in detail, interpreting customer needs and responding to challenges to show the value and relevance to the customer business
• Act as an evangelist, answering technical questions on the solution and the Azure Public Cloud, show solutions to customer requirements through demonstrations and examples, and be able to articulate the business value.
• Collaborate with our strategic partners, Accenture and Microsoft, on target accounts.
• Work with Nordic Offering Leads and wider Avanade architect community in Denmark and across the Nordic Region to share, and document innovations and best practices.
• Building strong and lasting client relationships

Solution Architects play one of the most important roles at Avanade. You are front and center of solutions crafting. Your ideas and your work drive significant business outcomes for our largest enterprise clients. You lead all the lively stuff: solution development, architecture, sales support, and delivery for some of Avanade’s top clients.

This is a combined pre-sales and delivery role (approximately 50/50). The split with fluctuate in response to demand. You will engage directly with our customers and work in collaboration with our sales and delivery teams to define and deliver Cloud Transformation solutions based on Microsoft Azure.

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 qualifications:

Well-versed in new technology - enablement and transformation leadership to help clients assess, build, transform and operationalize new IT capabilities to support the new breed of customer experience-based business models

Demonstrated design and transformational leadership in enterprise digital architecture, including industry specific platforms and services enabling integration and delivery of multi-speed IT

Can operate in a culture of accountability; build a strong and active business network; meets sales targets and operational standards

Demonstrated expertise in a wide variety of hard and soft skills, vital to the implementation of systems, applications, architectures and applications

Collaborative; strong relationship-building and negotiation skills.

Excellent communicator: executive level communication skills (both written and verbal), and the ability to mentor others

You will have several years of 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.

A sneak peak of our benefits we offer:

• Management Limitless Learning - Pluralsight, real-time acces to technical and skilled resources globally
• Dedicated career adviser to enable your progression
• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you
• Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year 16 years in a row
• 24,000+ certifications in Microsoft technology
• 90+ Microsoft partner awards
• 19 Gold Competencies
• Flexible workhours, lunch at the office, lot's of social- and sports events.

Did we make you interested? Apply today!

What we offer you

Come for the distinctive experiences you have helping forward-thinking corporations, non-profits, and governments push the boundaries of digital innovation. Stay for the limitless learning opportunities that encourage you to master Microsoft and pursue big ideas. Enjoy ambitious growth for yourself as part of Avanade’s people-first culture with benefits like employee stock purchasing, flexible work arrangements, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and competitive pay