Summary

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

Our talented Azure Platform Practice 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 Public Cloud, Edge and Hybrid and working with the newest Microsoft technologies on exciting client projects. If you like pushing boundaries by outsmarting challenges, read on! 

Come join us 

The Azure Platform Practice is at the core of Avanade's excellence: delivering high-quality, complex projects with global impact. We focus on building and running reliable and secure cloud foundations - from large-scale landing zones to data and application platforms. We are committed to making our clients' cloud journey smooth - whether it's moving existing systems to help in datacenter exits, or creating new cloud-native solutions, or improving an existing cloud presence. Innovation and client satisfaction are part of our essence. 

Our team is a fast-growing, diverse group of more than 150 passionate enthusiasts and specialists in Azure technologies. We actively acknowledge and reward quality, encourage learning and have a strong focus on the career and development opportunities of all our people, making sure our employees are proud of working at Avanade is central to us!

Together we do what matters. 

What you’ll do  

• Use your deep knowledge of Azure cloud services to design resilient, scalable and secure cloud environments covering the full breadth of the Azure platform

• Design and implement Azure Landing Zones to establish a scalable, secure and compliant foundation for deploying cloud services.

• Lead complex migrations for on-premises infrastructure, applications, and databases to Azure.

• Develop solutions for Edge and Hybrid scenarios by integrating Azure Stack and other technologies to extend Azure capabilities to on-premises environments and edge devices.

• Architect and deploy Cloud Native solutions using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions, and Azure DevOps.

Data Analyst

Our Data & AI team is made up of curious, client‑focused professionals who help organisations turn data into insight, decisions, and action. We’re looking for a Data Analyst who combines strong business analysis capability with data product management skills to shape, define, and deliver high‑value use cases across analytics, AI, and modern data platforms.

If you’re passionate about understanding how businesses work, translating that into well‑defined data and AI use cases, and working closely with both business and technology stakeholders, we’d love to talk.

Together we do what matters.

Come join us

As a member of Avanade’s Data & AI practice, you’ll work at the intersection of business and technology, helping clients unlock value from their data across AI, Agentic AI, data platforms, reporting, and analytics. You’ll play a critical role in shaping data‑driven products and solutions, ensuring they are well‑defined, client‑centric, and deliver measurable outcomes.

This role is ideal for analytically minded professionals who are curious, collaborative, and motivated by driving meaningful change through data.

What you’ll do

• Partner with clients to understand business problems, opportunities, and priorities, translating them into clear data, analytics, and AI use cases
• Combine business analysis and data product thinking to define scope, success measures, roadmaps, and requirements for data‑driven solutions
• Analyse source systems, APIs, and data feeds, assessing data quality, structure, and suitability for analytics and AI use cases
• Design and document analytics‑focused data models, including dimensional models and star schemas
• Produce source‑to‑target mappings, business rules, and transformation logic to support data engineering and analytics delivery
• Work closely with data engineers, architects, and AI specialists to ensure requirements are well understood and effectively delivered
• Engage confidently with both business and technology stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and translator between worlds
• Support the evolution of data products over time, incorporating feedback, learning, and changing business needs

📍 While we have specific office locations, you can be based anywhere within: Spain, Italy, UK, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, East USA, East Canada.

Job Description

ERP Functional Architect – D365 Supply Chain (with optional Manufacturing experience) Location: Global / Virtual Talent Community: Business Applications – ERP Role Family: Solution Architecture Level: Manager

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🌟 About the Role

As an ERP Functional Architect specializing in Supply Chain within Avanade’s Global Integrated Centre of Excellence (ICOE), you will be responsible for designing, shaping, and delivering intelligent, scalable supply chain solutions on Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

You will partner with global clients to transform their supply chain operations, enhance visibility, optimize planning, and modernize processes using the latest capabilities—including AI-powered forecasting, automation, and analytics.

Manufacturing experience is not required, but it is considered a strong advantage and will open opportunities to support broader transformation programs.

This is a high-impact architecture role ideal for someone who wants to influence global ERP standards and deliver next-generation supply chain capabilities at scale.

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🔑 Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

· Lead the functional architecture of D365 F&SCM across global ERP programs.

· Develop solution blueprints, process maps, fit-gap analysis, and cross-functional integration designs.

· Embed AI capabilities such as demand forecasting, stocking optimization, anomaly detection, and intelligent replenishment into solution designs.

· (Optional) Contribute to Manufacturing solution design if you have experience in areas such as Production Control, Shop Floor, Lean/Process manufacturing, or costing.

· Participate in Avanade Communities of Practice (COP).

Client Engagement & Advisory

· Act as a trusted advisor to Supply Chain, Operations, and Logistics leaders—guiding future-state design and best-practice adoption.

· Lead workshops across supply chain functions (procurement, inventory, warehousing, logistics, planning, product management).

· Support clients adopting modern capabilities including Copilot, AI-augmented planning, and predictive operational insights.

· Communicate complex functional requirements and solution designs in clear, business-oriented language.

Delivery Quality & Governance

· Ensure functional governance, solution integrity, and design quality across global delivery teams following Method One standards.

· Support estimation, solution assurance, and design reviews throughout implementation.

· Identify and manage functional risks, dependencies, and integration points across supply chain workstreams.

Thought Leadership & ICOE Contribution

· Contribute to global delivery standards, templates, accelerators, and solution patterns for supply chain transformation.

· Support regions in scaling AI-enabled supply chain capabilities, ensuring consistent adoption and quality.

· Mentor functional consultants and contribute to capability-building within the global ERP community.

Role and Organization Context

The ICOE is a single organization that brings together Avanade’s existing COEs (Center of Excellence) to deliver excellence at scale to Avanade and clients. The three missions of the ICOE:

The primary mission within the SME Tower is to create strong client and partner relationships by delivering subject matter expertise throughout the sales and delivery lifecycle. The key activities for the tower include:

· A home for SMEs and Thought leaders – Avanade’s deep technical, experienced client-facing resources who can be at the “tip of the spear” with the latest Microsoft technologies, while also promoting best practices in any situation.

· Driving advanced certification and technical eminence for SMEs, leveraging the breadth of experience in Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft (and other technology partners) – becoming recognized as the place for specific technical resources across the organization.

· Providing a clear technical career path for people to grow and develop, in line with the required certifications and experience, while offering the ability to cross-skill between solution areas and practices leveraging communities – Industry, LOB, technical, etc., as part of the new Integrated COE.

· Working closely with the Solution Evolution & Asset Towers to ensure alignment with both solution area and practice roadmaps, while bringing the best of what the ICOE has to any engagement – client-facing deliveries or pursuits, solution area play evolution, practice asset leverage, industry specialists.

· Supporting the Solutioning & Shared Services Towers with deep specific technical skills as required to differentiate client experience in both presales and delivery.

· Supporting the solution areas, practices, LOBs, and play squads as required, with specific technical resources, while also acting as the conduit between the towers of the ICOE – for example, leveraging assets or harvesting collateral/assets for continuous improvement.