Role Overview

We are seeking an Application Manager for Avanade’s Application Practice to connect business development, consulting delivery and engineering capability. This is a client-facing practice management role—not primarily an internal application-owner position. The manager leads software teams delivering application consulting, custom development and modernization engagements, while supporting presales, go-to-market (GTM) activities and application managed services.

The successful candidate will translate client needs into credible solutions and proposals, mobilize delivery teams, govern execution and develop engineering talent. Working with practice leadership, sales, account teams, architects and delivery managers, the role balances client outcomes, technical quality, commercial commitments, team capacity and capability growth across the application lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

1. Presales and Solution Development

• Partner with sales and account teams to qualify application consulting, development, modernization and managed-services opportunities and understand client business outcomes.

• Lead discovery workshops, application assessments and solution shaping; define scope, delivery approach, architecture options, assumptions, dependencies and risks with solution architects.

• Coordinate estimates, staffing models, delivery schedules, cost inputs and statements of work; support proposal preparation, RFP responses, demonstrations and client presentations.

• Validate solution feasibility and delivery commitments through appropriate reviews, and ensure a clear handover from presales to delivery.

2. Consulting Delivery and Engagement Management

• Lead or oversee application consulting and software delivery engagements from discovery and mobilization through build, testing, release, acceptance and transition.
• Work with delivery managers and client stakeholders to govern scope, milestones, budgets, dependencies, risks, change requests and contractual commitments.
• Coordinate business analysts, architects, software engineers, quality engineers, DevOps specialists and distributed delivery teams with clear ownership and escalation paths.
• Maintain delivery reporting, quality gates and client communications; resolve blockers and support project recovery while protecting agreed business outcomes.

3. Application Development and Modernization

• Guide teams delivering custom applications, digital products, APIs and integrations, using Microsoft Azure and appropriate engineering technologies for the client solution.
• Lead application assessments and modernization roadmaps covering rationalization, cloud migration, replatforming, refactoring, replacement and retirement.
• Ensure engineering practices include secure design, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, accessibility and non-functional requirements.
• overn architecture decisions, technical debt, release readiness, rollback plans and reusable delivery assets with architecture, security and operations stakeholders.

4. Application Managed Services, Security and Operational Readiness

• Shape application managed-services scope, support models, service levels and transition plans during solutioning and delivery, with the relevant service teams.
• Ensure implementation-to-operations handover includes documentation, monitoring, runbooks, knowledge transfer, support ownership and recovery requirements.
• Oversee service reviews and incident, problem, change and release governance for engagements within the role’s remit; prioritize automation and continual improvement.
• Embed security, privacy, compliance and resilience requirements in client solutions; coordinate risk reviews, audit evidence and remediation with accountable stakeholders.

5. Go-to-Market and Practice Commercial Management

• Contribute to Application Practice GTM plans, offerings and value propositions for consulting, application development, modernization and managed services.
• Work with sales, account teams, marketing and relevant alliance teams to develop campaigns, client workshops, demonstrations and opportunity follow-up.
• Create reusable proposal content, reference architectures, accelerators and approved case studies; share delivery insights to strengthen market positioning.
• Support pipeline reviews, demand forecasting, utilization and engagement financial tracking; flag delivery capacity, cost and commercial risks to practice leadership.

6. People and Software-Team Management

• Manage assigned engineers and software teams, including regular one-to-ones, career development, coaching and coordination of the established people-management processes.

• Plan staffing, skills coverage, allocation, onboarding and succession with practice and delivery leaders; match team capabilities to engagement needs.

• Provide clear delivery responsibilities and technical leadership through engineering leads; foster collaboration across local, offshore and partner teams.

• Support recruitment and technical interviews, sustainable workloads, inclusive teamwork and early resolution of delivery impediments.

7. Internal Engineer Training and Practice Enablement

• Maintain an engineer capability-development plan aligned to application consulting, development, modernization and managed-services demand.
• Organize internal training, hands-on labs, mentoring, certifications and knowledge-sharing sessions covering Azure application development, architecture, secure engineering, DevOps and modernization.
• Build communities of practice and reusable learning assets; capture lessons from engagements and embed them in delivery standards and onboarding.
• Track training participation, certification progress and practical application of learning; coordinate protected learning time with delivery commitments.

Microsoft セキュリティソリューションを中心に、コンサルティングからシステム設計・構築・運用までを一気通貫で支援します。顧 客のセキュリティ課題に対して、アセスメント、構想策定、要件定義、設計、導入、運用改善まで幅広く関与いただきます。

アバナードでは従来のサイバーセキュリティに加え、Microsoft 365 Copilot やAIエージェントの安全な活用を実現するため のセキュリティガバナンス、データ保護、セキュリティ運用高度化プロジェクトにも携わることができます。

・グローバル企業・上場企業を中心とした大規模案件に参画可能

・Microsoft セキュリティ領域におけるコンサルティングから設計・構築・運用まで一気通貫で支援

・Azure/M365 を中心に15種類以上のセキュリティ技術を活用

・アクセンチュアとの協業案件だけでなく、アバナード主導案件にも参画可能

・AI、データ保護、アイデンティティ、クラウドセキュリティなど幅広いテーマを担当可能

【業務内容詳細】

ご経験やご志向に応じて、以下いずれかの領域において、お客様のセキュリティ課題解決をご担当いただきます。

・共通業務 （提案、要件定義、設計、構築、移行、プロジェクトマネジメント）

・クラウド・インフラセキュリティ （Azureを中心としたクラウド環境のセキュリティ設計・構築、セキュリティガバナンス整備、ネ ットワーク・インフラ領域のセキュリティ強化支援）

・アイデンティティ領域 ・アクセス管理（Entra IDを活用した認証基盤構築、IDガバナンス、アクセス管理、特権アクセ ス管理（PAM）の設計・導入支援）

・セキュリティコンサルティング・アドバイザリー （セキュリティアセスメント、方針・ロードマップ策定、ゼロトラスト推進、リスク評 価、コンプライアンス対応支援）

・アプリケーションセキュリティ （セキュア開発推進、DevSecOps導入、Web/APIアプリケーションのセキュリティ強化支 援）

・ SOC・セキュリティ運用 （SOC構築、MDR導入、セキュリティ監視環境整備、インシデント対応・脅威分析支援）

【ソリューション領域の紹介】

アバナードでは、Microsoftテクノロジーを中心としたセキュリティソリューションを活用し、お客様のセキュリティ変革を支援しています。ご経験 やご志向に応じて、以下いずれか、または複数の領域をご担当いただきます。

■ AI Security & AI Governance（AI セキュリティ・AIガバナンス）

Microsoft 365 Copilot や Azure OpenAI Service などの生成 AI 活用を推進する企業に対し、アイデンティティ管理、アクセス制御、 データ保護、情報ガバナンスの整備を支援。AI活用とセキュリティを両立するためのアーキテクチャ設計や運用ルール策定、セキュリティ対策 の企画・導入を実施。

（主なソリューション例：Microsoft Copilot for Security / Microsoft 365 Copilot / Microsoft Purview / Microsoft Defender / Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AI Services / Azure OpenAI Service）

■ Digital Identity（ID・アクセス管理）

企業におけるゼロトラスト実現の中核となるID・アクセス管理領域です。Entra ID（旧Azure AD）を中心に、認証・認可基盤の整備、 ID ライフサイクル管理、多要素認証（MFA）、特権アクセス管理などを通じて、安全かつ利便性の高いアクセス環境を実現します。

（主 なソリューション例：Microsoft Entra ID / Entra ID Governance / Entra Private Access / Entra Internet Access / Azure Application Proxy）

■ Cloud Security（クラウドセキュリティ）

Azure をはじめとするクラウド環境におけるセキュリティ強化を支援する領域です。クラウドの利活用が進む中で、セキュリティガバナンスの強化 やリスクの可視化、セキュアな運用基盤の構築を通じて、お客様の安全なクラウド活用を支援します。

（主なソリューション例：Microsoft Defender for Cloud / Azure Policy / Azure Firewall / Azure Key Vault / Azure Network Security）

■ Cyber Defense（脅威対策・セキュリティ運用）

サイバー攻撃の検知、分析、対応を担うセキュリティ運用領域です。ネットワーク、サーバー、エンドポイント、クラウド環境から収集したセキュリ ティデータを活用し、脅威の可視化やインシデント対応の高度化を支援します。

（主なソリューション例：Microsoft Sentinel / Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / Microsoft Defender for Identity / Microsoft Defender XDR / Copilot for Security）

■ Data Protection（データ保護・ガバナンス）

企業の重要情報を保護し、安全なデータ活用を推進する領域です。 データの分類・ラベリング、情報漏洩対策、コンプライアンス対応などを通じて、ビジネススピードとガバナンスを両立する仕組みを構築します。

（主なソリューション例：Microsoft Purview Information Protection / Data Loss Prevention（DLP） / Insider Risk Management / eDiscovery / Microsoft Intune）

■ Security Transformation（セキュリティ変革支援）

単なる製品導入に留まらず、お客様のセキュリティ戦略策定からロードマップ策定、ゼロトラスト推進、運用高度化までを支援するコンサルティ ング領域です。Microsoftテクノロジーを活用しながら、企業のセキュリティ成熟度向上と継続的な変革を支援します。

（主な支援内容：セキュリティアセスメント / ゼロトラスト構想策定 / セキュリティロードマップ策定 / セキュリティガバナンス整備 / セキュリテ ィ運用高度化支援）

【案件事例】

★生成AIセキュリティ強化プロジェクト（グローバル食品メーカー）

Microsoft Azure および Power Platform 上の生成AI基盤に対するセキュリティアセスメントを実施。アクセス制御、暗号化、ネットワー ク設定などを評価し、セキュリティ改善策を提案。生成AI活用を支えるセキュアな環境整備を支援しました。

★ 地方銀行グループにおけるゼロトラストセキュリティ基盤構築

地方銀行グループのセキュリティ変革プロジェクトに参画。Microsoft 365 E5を活用したゼロトラスト基盤の構築を推進し、Purview、 Defender、Sentinel を活用した統合セキュリティ環境の設計・導入を支援。構想策定から運用設計、SOC体制整備まで一気通貫で 担当しました。

★その他

・Microsoft Sentinel を活用した SIEM基盤の導入・運用高度化支援

・Microsoft Defender 製品群を活用した脅威検知・防御基盤の構築

・Azure環境におけるクラウドセキュリティアセスメントおよびガバナンス整備

・Entra ID（Azure AD）を活用した認証・IDガバナンス基盤の構築

・Microsoft 365 環境の情報保護・コンプライアンス強化

・DevSecOps導入によるアプリケーション開発プロセスのセキュリティ強化

・NIST・ISO27001 等を踏まえた情報セキュリティアセスメント支援

・SOC構築およびManaged Detection & Responseサービス導入支援

・AIセキュリティ、IoTセキュリティ等の新領域に関するコンサルティング・導入支援

私たちが共に成し遂げること 

アバナードは、MicrosoftとAccentureのジョイントベンチャーとして誕生した、世界トップクラスのテクノロジー・プロフェッショナル集団です。 

Microsoftが世界トップリーダーとして評価される最新セキュリティ技術を自ら実装し、価値として届け切ることを強みとしています。 

戦略策定から設計・構築・運用までを一気通貫で担い、特定領域に縛られないエンドツーエンドのセキュリティを実現しています。

Avanade is the world’s leading Microsoft expert, helping more than 7,000 organizations modernize securely and scale AI using Microsoft technology, faster. Founded by Microsoft and Accenture, and operating as Microsoft’s Client Zero, Avanade brings deep expertise and proven delivery to simplify complexity, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable results.

Together with Accenture, Avanade combines global scale with expertise in AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and ERP to design solutions that put people first. With 60,000 Microsoft professionals worldwide, 165,000 certifications, and the largest community of Microsoft MVPs, Avanade has spent more than 25 years helping organizations unlock the full potential of people and technology to create lasting impact for clients, employees, and communities. 

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O) ERP Lead / Architect to lead solution design and delivery for complex enterprise transformation programs. The role requires a strong combination of D365 Functional & Technical architecture, delivery leadership, integration knowledge, and client-facing consulting skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end solution design and delivery of D365 F&O capabilities.
• Gather business and functional requirements into scalable solution designs aligned with Microsoft recommended practices.
• Own Functional architecture across OOB business functions, extensions, integrations, data migration, reporting, security, environments, and deployment.
• Facilitate solution design workshops with business, functional, integration, data, and infrastructure teams.
• Define solution, best practice standards, development guidelines, and quality gates.
• Review solution designs, estimates, code, integrations, and deployment plans to ensure quality, performance, security, and supportability.
• Lead fit-gap assessment and recommend configuration, extension, Power Platform, or integration approaches.
• Coordinate functional consultants, integration teams, and partner stakeholders across the delivery lifecycle.
• Manage risks, dependencies, defects, and design decisions, escalating issues with clear mitigation plans.
• Support environment planning, release management, cutover, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
• Mentor team members and support capability development within the D365 practice.
• Communicate solution options and trade-offs clearly to client stakeholders and program leadership.

Avanade is the world’s leading Microsoft expert, helping more than 7,000 organizations modernize securely and scale AI using Microsoft technology, faster. Founded by Microsoft and Accenture, and operating as Microsoft’s Client Zero, Avanade brings deep expertise and proven delivery to simplify complexity, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable results.

Together with Accenture, Avanade combines global scale with expertise in AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and ERP to design solutions that put people first. With 60,000 Microsoft professionals worldwide, 165,000 certifications, and the largest community of Microsoft MVPs, Avanade has spent more than 25 years helping organizations unlock the full potential of people and technology to create lasting impact for clients, employees, and communities. 

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations ERP SME / Technical Lead to provide solution leadership for  strategic enterprise programs. The role will define the target technical architecture, guide critical design decisions, assure solution quality, and advise client and delivery leadership on D365 platform strategy, integration, data, security, extensibility, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern the overall D365 F&O technical architecture and ensure alignment with business objectives and enterprise architecture principles.
• Act as the senior subject-matter expert for complex technical decisions across D365 F&O, Power Platform, Azure services, enterprise integrations, data, security, reporting, and application lifecycle management.
• Lead architecture discovery, fit-gap analysis, solution-option evaluation, and technical-design authority reviews.
• Create and maintain architecture artefacts, including solution context, integration architecture, data architecture, security design, environment strategy, deployment approach, and non-functional requirements.
• Identify opportunities to use standard product capabilities and minimize unnecessary customization and technical debt.
• Review high-risk extensions, integrations, migration designs, performance-sensitive processes, and production-readiness plans.
• Provide design assurance and independent challenge across functional and technical workstreams.
• Advise on platform roadmap, release strategy, upgrade readiness, support model, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with client architects, business leaders, program leadership, Microsoft, and delivery teams to resolve cross-platform dependencies and architecture risks.
• Support estimation, solutioning, proposals, due diligence, and executive-level architecture presentations where required.
• Coach ERP Leads, technical architects, and development teams and establish reusable standards and patterns.
• Support cutover governance, go-live readiness, stabilization, and resolution of critical technical issues.