Avanade is looking for an experienced Cloud Security & Exposure Management Architect to join our security practice. This is a client-facing role where you will be engaged in some of the most exciting, complex, and leading-edge projects. You will help clients improve their cloud security and exposure management maturity by identifying, prioritizing, and reducing exploitable risks across cloud, identity, endpoint, application, and data environments, using Microsoft Security technologies and modern threat-informed approaches.

You will also be part of the Avanade Security presales and Architecture function supporting the development of proposals, solution options, and architecture inputs for enterprise clients, with a focus on cloud security, exposure management, and Microsoft Security-led transformation. This role will include partial delivery expectations for the year.

In this role, you will:

• Lead defined workstreams or small project teams within larger cloud security and exposure management engagements.

• Manage assigned deliverables, including exposure assessments, remediation plans, security control improvements, and reporting outputs against agreed engagement milestones.

• Contribute to solution architecture and pre-sales deal shaping for cloud security, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Defender for Cloud, and exposure management opportunities.

Build trusted relationships with client security, cloud, and operations stakeholders during delivery and pre-sales engagements.

• Design, implement, and integrate cloud security, exposure management, threat detection, and security operations capabilities, including Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Defender XDR, and related Microsoft Security technologies.

• Understand threat modelling, attack paths, cloud misconfigurations, identity risks, vulnerabilities, and how to prioritise remediation based on exploitability and business impact.

• Understand incident response, cyber recovery, and how exposure management can reduce the likelihood and impact of security incidents.

• Understand security operations centre functions and how exposure insights can support detection engineering, prioritised remediation, and operational risk management.

• Have a good understanding of Microsoft platforms across Windows, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, and Defender, including how risks and exposures surface across these environments.

• Understand how threat actors exploit misconfigurations, identity weaknesses, vulnerable assets, exposed services, and weak security controls.

• Apply frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to help clients understand attack paths, prioritise exposures, and improve cyber defence maturity.

• Understand the business, privacy, security, and compliance challenges surrounding client data, critical assets, and digital services, and articulate how exposures could increase risk to those assets.

• Be aware of emerging technologies in cyber defence, cloud security, attack surface management, vulnerability management, and exposure management.

• Develop strong working relationships with account teams, delivery teams, security architects, and client stakeholders.

• Identify customer needs and business goals, then translate them into practical cloud security and exposure management solution options.

• Support the development of security transformation and operations opportunities, using standardised tools, Microsoft Security capabilities, partner technologies, and exposure-led assessment approaches.

• Contribute to proposals, client presentations, solution discussions, and technical input throughout the sales process.

• Conduct and follow through the sales process to accomplish deal closure.

Summary
As a Business Analyst Manager, you won’t just document requirements, you’ll help shape meaningful, human centered solutions powered by data and AI. You’ll partner with clients, designers, engineers, and product teams to deeply understand user needs, translate them into impactful solutions, and deliver outcomes that are both intuitive for people and intelligent through technology. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of business, experience design, and emerging AI capabilities, helping organisations modernise how they work, decide and deliver value. Together we do what matters.

Location- Melbourne/Brisbane/Sydney/Perth

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis and Requirements:

• Elicit, define and manage functional and non-functional requirements with strong traceability
• Translate business needs into user stories, process models, and system level specifications
• Create clear, structured documentation and artefacts that enable delivery teams
• Facilitate workshops, refinements and co-design sessions with stakeholders, delivery teams and end users
• Lead discovery and business analysis workstreams across transformation programmes, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology solution and measurable outcomes
• Provide thought leadership on requirements management, governance and business analysis best practices across client engagements
• Coach and mentor Business Analyst and delivery team members, uplifting capability and delivery excellence

Process and Solution Design:

• Analyse and redesign end to end business processes with a focus on process gaps, efficiency and experience
• Ensure solutions balance user desirability, business viability and technical feasibility
• Prototype and validate solutions to ensure alignment with user and business needs
• Advise clients on AI, automation and digital transformation opportunities to improve business performance and employee experience
• Partner with Solution Architects and Product Leaders to ensure solution designs align with strategic business objectives
• Drive value identification, benefits realisation and measurable business outcomes throughout the transformation lifecycle
  

Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation:

• Lead executive level stakeholder engagement, influencing decision making across business and technology leadership teams
• Build trusted advisor relationships with clients and act as a strategic partner throughout transformation initiatives
• Guide organisations through business change and adoption

Agile Delivery:

• Work within Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) using tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira and Confluence
• Contribute to backlog refinement, sprint planning and iterative delivery
• Drive prioritisation decisions based on customer value, business impact strategic objective
• Support programme and portfolio level planning activities across multiple workstreams where required

AI-Enabled Business Analyst

• Leverage AI tools (e.g. M365 Copilot) to enhance analysis, documentation and insight generation
• Apply prompt engineering techniques to improve quality and efficiency of outputs. Design AI-enabled workflows and requirements approaches
• Shape AI strategies and identify opportunities for responsible adoption of generative AI capabilities
• Facilitate AI use case discovery workshops and assist clients in defining AI roadmaps and business cases

Summary