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Advisory & Strategy AV
United Kingdom
Role Purpose
Responsible for translating our global priorities into executable plans and ensuring successful delivery across the organisation. The role provides leadership, governance and oversight of strategic initiatives, driving alignment between business objectives, investment decisions, operational execution and measurable outcomes. Working closely with senior executives and business leaders, the role ensures that strategic ambitions are converted into sustainable business results.
Software Engineering AV
United Kingdom
Avanade Trading Business Analysis / Project Delivery Experience:
Track record of end-to-end project lifecycle delivery
Experience in shaping processes and solutions, including capturing business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements
Strong leadership, sound analytical skills and change management capabilities,
Coaching and mentoring of the wider business analysis team
Demonstratable stakeholder management skills, working with stakeholders at different levels in the organization and confidant providing legitimate challenge
Experience performing a quality assurance role on workstream deliverables
Experience working in Agile project delivery
Software Engineering AV
United Kingdom
Role Summary
We are hiring a Senior Manager in Solution Architecture to lead the design, commercialization, and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud and AI engineering platforms. This role operates across solution architecture, AI platform innovation, and commercial deal shaping, with a focus on building and scaling agentic engineering capabilities across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
You will work to accelerate every phase of the delivery lifecycle - from analysis and design to build, test, deploy, and operate – and drive transformation across complex enterprise legacy portfolios in the Microsoft Enterprise channel.
What You’ll Do
Lead Enterprise Solution Architecture
- Own end-to-end architecture for complex cloud and digital transformation programmes (Azure-centric but not exclusively)
- Define scalable design patterns across application, DevSecOps, and platform engineering with GitHub, Azure DevOps and open source technologies
- Ensure architectural integrity, governance, and engineering excellence
Drive AI & Agentic Engineering Innovation
- Lead the design and evolution of AI-driven engineering platforms embedding automation across the SDLC
- Define and operationalize multi-agent architectures across design, development, testing, and operations
- Translate frontier AI technologies into reusable engineering capabilities and offerings
Shape Deals & Commercial Outcomes
- Lead solutioning for strategic deals, including architecture, estimation, and cost models
- Develop value propositions linked to ROI, productivity, and cost reduction
- Support contract shaping while maintaining solution integrity
- Own and evolve the local go-to-market offerings for Agentic Engineering
Enable Delivery at Scale
- Provide architectural oversight through delivery
- Establish engineering best practices across DevOps and automation
- Lead and mentor distributed engineering teams
Act as a Trusted Advisor
- Engage senior stakeholders on cloud strategy, AI adoption, and engineering operating models
- Lead client workshops and executive briefings
Software Engineering AV
United Kingdom
Introduction
Join Avanade UK’s Software Engineering Practice as a hands-on AI Application Architect, helping design intelligent, agentic, cloud-native application designs. You will apply advanced AI techniques to accelerate every phase of the delivery lifecycle - from analysis and design to build, test, deploy, and operate - driving transformation across complex enterprise legacy portfolios.
This role operates across solution architecture, Agentic platform innovation, and commercial deal shaping, with a focus on building and scaling agentic engineering capabilities across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Role Overview
As part of a growing Software Engineering Practice, you will focus on modern application architecture while pioneering the use of agentic AI in real delivery scenarios.
You will collaborate closely with other Practices on direct deals, leading during solutioning phases as well as during critical delivery phases. Whether modernising legacy systems or building greenfield solutions from scratch, you will apply agentic AI to transform how projects are executed end-to-end.
This is a unique opportunity to influence Avanade’s architecture direction, elevate engineering productivity, and lead high-impact initiatives across our client base.
What you’ll do
- Lead C-Level application modernisation strategy discussions, workshops and executive briefings.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving digital transformation initiatives.
- Design and Lead Proof of Value work for application transformation clients.
- Provide SME capabilities on application remediation, technologies and transformation, both infrastructure and software as well as application integration.
- Validate Solution approach for modernisation projects, own deliverability of the technical and functional solution, ensuring correctness and achieve sign off.
- Collaborate with delivery, sales, and partner teams to shape proposals and ensure successful execution.
- Provide technical leadership to delivery teams and mentor solution architects.
- Lead assessments and transformation of legacy environments defining modernisation strategies (refactor, replatform, replace, etc).
- Establish modernisation frameworks and enforce architectural standards across programs
- Apply AI agents across all delivery phases: analysis, design, build, test, deploy, and operations.
- Drive AI adoption cross-practice and cross-region, enabling AI-driven solution roadmaps.
- Develop accelerators, reference architectures, and reusable assets for agentic AI patterns.
- Guide engineering, data, and DevOps teams on AI automation and pipeline integration.
- Travel occasionally for high-value client engagements.