Application Solutions Architect

Summary

Avanade is the perfect stage to bring your thoughtful, energetic, and curious approach to technology consulting.

Our talented Apps & Infra Solutions Team consists of some of the most dedicated and passionate in the field and we plan to grow With Avanade, you will be focusing on the Azure cloud and working with the newest (Microsoft) technologies on exciting client projects as part of our Solutioning Team. You'll be proposing, designing and implementing innovative and valuable solutions for customers that meet their needs. This opportunity is made more purposeful with our focus on positive outcomes for how humans work, interact, and live. If you like pushing boundaries by outsmarting challenges, read on

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.

Main Responsibilities

• 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.

Experience Required for Success:

• 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.

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.