Associate Manager, DevOps Engineering 

Avanade is looking for an Associate Manager, DevOps Engineer to establish and facilitate CI/CD best practices, cloud/container-based orchestration and establish automated testing strategies. This individual will focus on the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling and continuous delivery cycle, helping teams and organizations provide agility and business-value.

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There is one in every group - the person who dreams big and has the motivation to bring their ideas to life, even as others might roll their eyes and prefer to play it safe.  Are you that person? 

Are you the one who isn’t afraid to break the mold and who gets passionate about the power of digital to transform organizations and ways of working?  Because we are building teams of people like that to help our clients unlock the power they need now and own what is next. Together we do what matters. 

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 $129,917 to $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

Introduction:

Serve as a Productivity Studio MW Technical Lead, responsible for driving end-to-end solution design, technical architecture, and value-based delivery of Low Code PP, as well as agentic and AI-enabled solutions across the Productivity Studio portfolio.

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This role combines technical leadership, solutioning, and delivery ownership, ensuring that Productivity Studio engagements deliver measurable business outcomes at scale while adhering to enterprise-grade standards.

What you'll do:

1. Technical Architecture & Solution Leadership

• Lead architecture and design of Copilot, Power Platform, Azure, and AI-driven solutions

• Define scalable, secure, and compliant architectures aligned with enterprise governance

• Evaluate and recommend best-fit technologies for prioritized use cases 

• Drive POCs, solution ideation, and architecture evolution to accelerate delivery 

2. Productivity Studio Delivery Leadership

• Own and manage end-to-end delivery lifecycle for Productivity Studio initiatives 

• Define and execute delivery plans, including risk, issue, and dependency management

• Partner with Delivery Lead (you) to ensure alignment across timeline, scope, and financials

• Ensure adherence to Agile delivery practices and SDLC standards

3. AI & Agentic Solution Enablement

• Contribute to the evolution of agent-first delivery models and frameworks as part of Productivity Studio’s frontier capabilities 

• Ensure solutions leverage enterprise intelligence, governance, and reusable accelerators

4. Value Engineering & Business Outcome Focus

• Translate business requirements into high-value use cases and measurable outcomes

• Support definition of business value, ROI, and success metrics for each engagement 

• Prioritize work based on business impact, complexity, and scalability

5. Stakeholder & Client Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to Microsoft and Avanade stakeholders

• Support pre-sales, deal shaping, and solutioning activities (as evidenced in prior architecture roles) 

• Lead technical discussions with client architects and business stakeholders

• Drive alignment across cross-functional teams (UX, engineering, advisory)

6. Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to delivery teams

• Support onboarding and scaling of Productivity Studio pods

• Promote reuse of assets, accelerators, and best practices