Microsoft Cloud, Application Solution Architect

Come join us

Our Apps & Infra Solutions Team plays an instrumental part in doing what Avanade does best: design, propose and deliver outstanding, complex projects with global impact and helping our clients transform their businesses through digital innovation. We are a diverse group of more than 450 passionate enthusiasts and specialists in Microsoft technologies. We actively encourage learning, value oriented, focus on progress and acknowledge, and reward quality. We're ambitious, curious, and want to bring on more people with a similar passion for technology.
At Avanade, 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, as well as being a mentor in making sure you thrive and feel valued. We have a strong focus on the career and development opportunities of all our people and making sure our employees are proud of working at Avanade is central to us!
Together we do what matters.

What you'll do

You'll participate in both presales and delivery activities. We strongly encourage acquiring experience on the job and use this experience in new proposals.
Participate in a cross technical team, with different Avanade Spain areas proposing innovative solutions providing your knowledge and expertise to solve cross-technology problems.
Apply your expertise in design, propose and defend scalable, high reliable cloud-ready solutions based on Azure value and meeting our customer needs.
Apply your expertise in technical and consulting knowledge to advise clients on fit-for-purpose architectures, ensure nonfunctional requirements as well as evolving business needs.
Work in projects that utilize Microsoft and latest front-end technologies in distributed, highly scalable, robust and responsive architectures.
Architect and deploy and Azure solutions across the Azure platform using DevSecOps practices with Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions
Deliver using Agile frameworks, paying special attention to code quality, delivery commitments and team leadership

Skills and experiences

Experience designing, planning, proposing and implementing from simple to complex architectures based on Azure Platform using distributed service-oriented architectures - Microservices, Event Based, Event Sourcing -
Experience with front end architecture approaches and technologies
Great communication and interpersonal skills - you're working directly with clients, sales team, alongside a team of consultants, or within a client team. You're good at communicating hard concepts so everyone understands
DevSecOps knowledgeable using preferably Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
Experience engaging with and advising clients, writing high-level and detailed designs, and defining architectural solutions
Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform services and capabilities
Comfortable working in large and small teams to design and implement solutions
Experience through the whole Software Lifecycle, paying special attention to code quality activities and standards

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role
Experience designing, proposing and implementing complex architectures
Customer facing experience: understand needs and provide a good compromise between value provided and solution complexity
Experience leading technical teams, organizing technical activities, supporting team members with less experience and helping them with complex activities
Analytical, curious, agile
Team player and good communicator
Problem-solver, patient, quality-driven
Self-motivating
Innovative mindset

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 co-workers 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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