Introduction:

The AI Workforce Endpoint Technical Lead is a senior technical leadership role responsible for architecting and delivering enterprise endpoint solutions across Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and related Microsoft technologies. This role provides technical direction for large-scale endpoint transformation programs, ensuring successful delivery, operational excellence, and adherence to architecture, security, and quality standards throughout the project lifecycle. 

Come Join Us: 

This is an opportunity to lead the delivery of complex endpoint transformation programs for large enterprise customers. You will apply deep technical expertise across modern device management technologies while guiding delivery teams, solving complex technical challenges, and ensuring successful outcomes across endpoint deployments, security initiatives, virtualization platforms, and operational modernization efforts. 

What you'll do: 

Endpoint Architecture & Delivery Leadership 

• Lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise endpoint solutions across Microsoft Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, and mobile device management platforms. 

• Serve as the primary technical authority for endpoint transformation programs from planning through deployment and stabilization. 

• Define and maintain technical standards, implementation patterns, reference architectures, and deployment methodologies. 

• Oversee technical governance, risk management, and quality assurance across endpoint delivery programs. 

• Provide architectural guidance for endpoint security, compliance, identity integration, application delivery, and device lifecycle management. 

• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues and deployment challenges. 

Endpoint Engineering & Automation 

• Design and implement automation solutions that improve device provisioning, application deployment, compliance management, reporting, and operational support. 

• Integrate endpoint management platforms with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, PowerShell automation, Power Platform, and operational tooling. 

• Develop reusable deployment assets, engineering standards, and accelerators that improve delivery quality and consistency. 

• Drive continuous improvement through Endpoint Analytics, operational reporting, platform optimization, and automation. 

Program Delivery & Technical Governance 

• Lead technical workstreams across large endpoint transformation and modernization programs. 

• Ensure adherence to architecture standards, security baselines, deployment controls, and operational best practices. 

• Conduct architecture reviews, deployment readiness assessments, technical quality reviews, configuration audits, and risk assessments. 

• Coordinate with project managers, engineering teams, security stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and client IT teams to remove delivery blockers and maintain program momentum. 

• Support transition activities including operational readiness, knowledge transfer, documentation, stabilization, and support handoff. 

Stakeholder & Client Leadership 

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to client stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle. 

• Translate complex endpoint requirements and technical risks into clear decisions and actionable delivery plans. 

• Lead client-facing technical workshops, architecture reviews, program checkpoints, and executive-level delivery briefings. 

• Build productive working relationships across client technology, security, operations, and business teams. 

Team Leadership & Capability Development 

• Mentor endpoint engineers and architects in delivery methodologies, engineering practices, and Microsoft endpoint technologies. 

• Build technical capability through coaching, peer reviews, technical communities, and knowledge-sharing activities. 

• Contribute to internal standards, reference architectures, automation frameworks, delivery playbooks, and reusable assets. 

Job Family Overview:

Focus on (Cloud and On-Premise) deployments of Dynamics 365, including all related configurations, Azure DevOps setup, Azure services configuration and environment monitoring and maintenance.

Job Overview:

Responsible for designing and implementing AX systems and cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, security and systems management architectures/solutions that enable effective client operations and collaboration.​

Key Accountabilities:

• Creation of build automation and/or build guides for solid, repeatable server builds and deployments
• Deploy enterprise-wide messaging and collaboration solutions to lower administrative costs and enhance end-user productivity
• Collect, identify, define and organize detailed user and systems requirements. Coordinate and collaborate with others to ensure plans and identified solutions meet the customer needs and expectations
• Monitor performance and analyze statistics to identify and resolve system problems
• Establish and maintain security including AX Security, integrity and business continuity controls and documents
• Responsible for the design of the AX technical infrastructure and integration in Customer existing environment
• works with Customer IT Operation management
• Designs performance framework and high availability architecture, designs and run performance benchmarks on critical business transactions

Key Role Skill & Capability Requirements:

Global skill requirements to come; speak to hiring manages, capability leads, and region Talent Community champions for needs in local market.

Preferred Certifications:Preferrred Education Background:

You will likely posess a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevt field.

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

3-4 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Years of Management Experience:Scope of Work:

Nature of Work: Executes project/program plans and processes in alignment with established operational objectives.Scope of Work: Work must be coordinated across different workstreams, processes, or projects.Complexity: Complex problems that can span across work domains requiring considerable judgement of contextual factors.Discretion: Wide latitude in approach to work within established work plans.Organizational Impact: Work efforts have an immediate impact on Avanade and/or client operations. If client-facing, should start to support client relationship and sales outcomes.Supervision Received: Works under general guidance and direction, but fully independent in own work with latitude for autonomous decision-making related to work process.Supervision Provided: Supports more junior colleagues on work efforts, with routine supervision of work efforts. May serve as Career Advisor.Knowledge Applied: Applies advanced knowledge of a learned occupation / discipline and basic knowledge of business operations.

Key Performance Indicators:Relevant Additional Details:

This field is reserved for any additional details that may not be globally relevant and consistently vary on a position-by-position basis.

Job Description:

[MULTIPLE POSITIONS] Avanade Inc. seeks Azure Data Engineers in Chicago, IL to deliver analytics and data engineering solutions to our clients. In this role, you will: design and set-up projects that bring together information from a variety of sources to enable analysis and decision-making; utilize personal knowledge to plan and deliver data warehouse and storage; take part in designing and running bespoke data services to individual projects; design, develop, adapt, and maintain data warehouse architecture and relational databases to support data mining; customize storage and extraction, meta-data, and information repositories; create and use effective metrics and monitoring processes; monitor key performance indicators to determine where current operations can be improved, and identify the causes of any problems; create the building blocks for transforming enterprise data solutions; design and build modern data pipelines, data streams, and data service Application Programming Interfaces (APIs); and create and maintain report forms and formats, information dashboards, reports, as well as other information portals and resources. Periodic travel to client sites (domestic) is expected up to 60% of the time. Must live w/in reasonable commuting distance of Chicago, IL. The offered salary range for this specific position in IL is $133,058.00 to $139,500.00 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 11/03/2026 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

Job Family Overview:

Focus on (Cloud and On-Premise) deployments of Dynamics 365, including all related configurations, Azure DevOps setup, Azure services configuration and environment monitoring and maintenance.

Job Overview:

Responsible for designing and implementing AX systems and cloud infrastructure, operating systems, networking, security and systems management architectures/solutions that enable effective client operations and collaboration.​

Key Accountabilities:

• Creation of build automation and/or build guides for solid, repeatable server builds and deployments
• Deploy enterprise-wide messaging and collaboration solutions to lower administrative costs and enhance end-user productivity
• Collect, identify, define and organize detailed user and systems requirements. Coordinate and collaborate with others to ensure plans and identified solutions meet the customer needs and expectations
• Monitor performance and analyze statistics to identify and resolve system problems
• Establish and maintain security including AX Security, integrity and business continuity controls and documents
• Responsible for the design of the AX technical infrastructure and integration in Customer existing environment
• works with Customer IT Operation management
• Designs performance framework and high availability architecture, designs and run performance benchmarks on critical business transactions

Key Role Skill & Capability Requirements:

Global skill requirements to come; speak to hiring manages, capability leads, and region Talent Community champions for needs in local market.

Preferred Certifications:Preferrred Education Background:

You will likely posess a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevt field.

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

2-3 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Years of Management Experience:Scope of Work:

Nature of Work: Executes project/program plans and processes in alignment with established operational objectives.Scope of Work: Primarily focused on own work, and execution of prescribed work plans.Complexity: Complex problems primarily within one's occupation / discipline that require personal judgement of contextual factors.Discretion: Wide latitude in approach to work within established work plans.Organizational Impact: Work efforts have an immediate impact on Avanade and/or client operations.Supervision Received: Works under general guidance and direction, but fully independent in own work with latitude for autonomous decision-making related to work process.Supervision Provided: Supports more junior colleagues on work efforts, with some checking of work.Knowledge Applied: Applies advanced knowledge of a learned occupation / discipline.

Key Performance Indicators:Relevant Additional Details:

This field is reserved for any additional details that may not be globally relevant and consistently vary on a position-by-position basis.