Introduction:

Unlock the potential of Modern Workplace as a Modern Workplace Engineer helping our customers build cutting-edge solutions the M265 platform. Embrace continuous learning and collaborate with global teams to shape the future of technology-driven excellence. Join us at Avanade, where creativity, innovation, and career growth thrive.

Come join us:

Do you enjoy developing long lasting working relationships with clients in some of the biggest household names in the world, across a variety of industries? Do you dream of delivering innovative, tailored modern IT solutions that truly make a difference?  Embrace your passion for continuous learning and seize the opportunity to deliver top-tier results under pressure. Join us as we shape the future with technology-driven excellence! Together we do what matters.

What you’ll do:

• Join one of our small project teams involved in the delivery of Modern Workplace solutions, in particular M365, Windows 11, Entra ID, Enterprise Mobility & Security, Intune, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365.
• Work with your team to ensure successful project delivery.
• Take responsibility for project tasks.
• Build and maintain client relationships to ensure successful delivery.
• Use automation and tooling to assist with migration.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of the Microsoft365 service, and all required tools and products that support the evolving workplace.

Summary

We are looking for an experienced Pre-Sales Architect to lead solutioning and pre-sales for Applications and Infrastructure opportunities across Malaysia and the wider Southeast Asia region. The successful candidate will partner with sales, delivery and Microsoft account teams to shape, qualify and win deals — translating client business problems into compelling, commercially-viable Microsoft-centric solutions, with a primary focus on application modernization, cloud-native architectures, and AI-infused software delivery on Azure.

This is a client-facing, strategic role for someone who can hold their own in a CTO/CIO conversation, lead solution workshops, defend technical decisions during deal reviews, and produce high-quality proposals, estimates and architecture deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Sales & Solutioning

• Own the technical solution for Apps and Infra pursuits — from qualification through proposal, orals and contracting.

• Lead discovery workshops with client stakeholders to elicit business drivers, current-state pain points and future-state ambitions.

• Design end-to-end solution architectures spanning application modernization, microservices, integration, DevSecOps and underlying Azure infrastructure.

• Produce solution artefacts: architecture diagrams, capability maps, estimate models, delivery approach, risk registers and assumption logs.

• Partner with commercial and delivery leadership to construct deal shapes, pricing, resourcing and transition plans.

Application Modernization & Cloud-Native Design

• Define modernization roadmaps using the 6Rs (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, Retire) and Azure migration patterns.

• Architect microservices-based solutions leveraging AKS, Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid and Cosmos DB.

• Apply cloud-native patterns: 12-factor apps, event-driven architectures, CQRS, saga, strangler-fig, anti-corruption layer.

• Advise clients on legacy decomposition strategies (monolith-to-microservices, mainframe offload, .NET Framework to .NET modernization).

LLM-Driven SDLC & AI-Infused Engineering

• Position and shape engagements that embed GenAI across the software delivery lifecycle — including GitHub Copilot adoption, AI-assisted code review, requirements engineering, test generation and documentation.

• Architect AI agents and copilots integrated into client engineering workflows.

• Define adoption frameworks, governance and measurement approaches for AI-augmented engineering productivity.

• Stay ahead of the Microsoft AI stack: Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Studio.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with Microsoft account teams (ATU, STU, CSU) in Malaysia to co-sell and source opportunities.

• Represent Avanade in client meetings, industry events and Microsoft partner forums.

• Mentor junior architects and solution consultants within the practice.

About Avanade’s Advisory & Experiences Practice 

Want to drive customer value with AI and turn your ideas into human impact? So do we. 

At Avanade, we are breaking apart the traditional process of setting strategies and goals first, then finding technologies to achieve them. In the age of AI and rapid digital transformation, there’s no time for that linear process. We partner with clients to accelerate value by being ambitious, imaginative – and fast. We believe “big” and deliver personally. We relentlessly challenge, encourage, support our client partners and each other. 

About Avanade Advisory and Experiences 

As the strategic and experience consulting arm of Avanade, our Advisory & Experiences practice ensures enterprise technology investments deliver real business results. We combine deep Microsoft expertise with strategic vision and human understanding to transform how organizations apply technology to accomplish their goals. Our approach is comprehensive yet practical: we develop strategies rooted in business objectives, design systems that humans actually want to use, and enable our clients to implement real solutions that drive measurable outcomes—from operational efficiency to productivity gains, sustainable growth, and breakthrough innovation. 

Within Organizational Change Management (OCM), we guide clients through the journey from awareness to adoption for critical Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, and Microsoft 365 transformations. Our consultants help our clients realize the full value of their Microsoft technology investments, aligning stakeholders around shared visions, developing and implementing tailored change strategies, leading communications and engagement efforts, assessing change impacts, and designing training programs that upskill workforces and drive sustained adoption. We measure what matters—tracking progress, surfacing insights, and adjusting strategies to ensure lasting impact. Microsoft is our medium, and we are masters of our craft—bringing unmatched product knowledge, strategic insight, and human-centered delivery to every engagement. 

Job Description:

[MULTIPLE POSITIONS] Avanade Inc. seeks Senior Consultants, Technical Advisory in Houston, TX to play an integral part in defining how Avanade views and perceives the marketplace in categories for which we offer Advisory services to our clients. In this role, you will: operate within teams to assess the client Infrastructure environment (current issues, standards, technology, tooling, processes, capabilities, operating model and ongoing transformation); support teams to create the future state IT infrastructure strategy that addresses all stakeholder agreed issues and change requirements, taking into account business strategy, guiding principles and ongoing transformation projects; design customer flows/customer journey analysis; apply knowledge of business models, business and consumer technologies for implementation plans/IT improvement approaches and research methods; support vendor selection and procurement engagements by providing a mix of technical and analytical expertise to build requirements; coordinate with work efforts on a variety of projects, which includes information gathering used to evaluate client business environments and economic factors; and provide pre-sales support which consists of understanding client requirements, building proposals, building statements of work, and creating effort and resourcing plans. Periodic travel to client sites (domestic) is expected up to 80% of the time. Must live w/in reasonable commuting distance of Houston, TX.

Compensation at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The offered salary range for this specific position in TX is $129,000-$130,000 per year. Any multi-state or general compensation ranges displayed below do not apply to this position.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted on 5/12/2026 and open for at least 30 days.

Avanade offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: www.avanade.com/en-us/career/benefits