Industry X, referring to Industry X.0 solutions & services that help our Manufacturing clients & beyond to revolutionize the way they design, manufacturer and utilize products and services, represents a significant opportunity to drive incremental growth for Avanade and Accenture on the Microsoft platform.

Role Overview

As a Technical Architect, you’ll be a Subject Matter Expert and responsible for providing industry-specific guidance and insights to our clients and internal teams. You’ll be part of the global Industry X core team and support and enable our regional teams incubate and scale industry-specific solutions and services, with a focus on:

• Helping our clients establish shopfloor connectivity and a scalable OT Data & Platform foundation to enable new IT/OT solutions and business value-adding services.

• Harvesting, evolving and industrializing related best practice approaches and reusables assets

• Help shaping repeatable Factory Data Foundation and Agentic Factory AI & Analytics offerings aligned to market needs and internal roadmaps as SME.

• Though this is a global role, regional integration with key stakeholders is key to deliver impact and multiplicator effects.

Key Accountabilities

• Foster market reputation and awareness for Avanade Industry X solutions and services.

• Establish and sustain strategic relationships with Accenture, Microsoft, and relevant industry partners.

• Enable, support and coach local teams in unlocking and capturing Industry X growth opportunities, thereby actively driving Avanade Industry X Pipeline, overall and for Advisory services.

• Guide Bid Teams on defining winning strategies and developing tailored solutions and services.

• Be the Advisory lead within Industry X projects, defining appropriate technical architectures and/or ensuring value realization.

• Create reusable assets and accelerators and contribute to the continuous launch of new Industry X advisory services.

Come join us
There’s one in every group—the person who sees what’s possible and goes after it. If you are a consultative deal hunter who gets energized by opening doors, shaping bold Microsoft-powered solutions, and closing transformational work, you’ll thrive at Avanade.

We’re hiring in Calgary and Toronto within our SME&C sales organization (Small, Medium, Enterprise & Channel). You’ll be a player-coach—winning business directly while elevating the team around you—backed by one of the most deeply Microsoft-aligned consultancies in the market. Together, we do what matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Hunt, shape, and win opportunities—owning the end-to-end sales cycle from first outreach through negotiation and close, with VP/C-level buyers.
• Build pipeline and deliver revenue through multiple motions: new logo acquisition and land & expand growth across your assigned territory and accounts.
• Lead co-sell motions with Microsoft and collaborate with channel partners—aligning plans, shaping pursuits, and winning together.
• Lead complex pursuits and orchestrate the team to deliver outcome-led proposals—progressing opportunities through statements of work, commercial approvals, and contracting.
• Earn executive trust—map stakeholders, open doors, create referrals, and keep Avanade positioned as a long-term partner.
• Grow business across priority sectors: Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail & Consumer Goods, plus Resources (Energy, Oil & Gas), Communications, Media & Technology (CMT), and Products (including Manufacturing).

We are seeking a talented senior full stack developers or team leads to join our Canadian Apps and Infra team. This AI-enabled role involves leading a team to design, develop, and maintain components of large solutions using the latest Microsoft technology stack. You will collaborate with other members of a multidisciplinary team to deliver transformative solutions for our clients.

Base responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable, secure applications utilizing both front-end and back-end frameworks.

• Integrate Gen AI into development workflows and feature development.

• Design, develop, and implement Generative AI agents to enhance user experience and automate processes.

• Work closely with designers, product owners, and other developers to produce top-quality software.

• Participate in all stages of software development—from requirements gathering through deployment and ongoing support.

• Write clean, efficient, well-tested code aligned with best practices.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges as they arise.

• Contribute to our culture of continuous improvement and stay informed about new technologies.

Team Lead responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor cross-functional teams—including DevOps, infrastructure, UX, frontend, and backend specialists—to deliver scalable, secure applications using modern frameworks and technologies.

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of solutions.

• Champion the integration of Generative AI into development workflows and product features, guiding teams in leveraging AI to drive innovation and automation.

• Foster close collaboration among designers, product owners, and technical teams to ensure delivery of high-quality, user-centric software solutions.

• Guide teams through all stages of the software development lifecycle—from requirements gathering and architectural planning to deployment and ongoing support—ensuring alignment with business objectives and best practices.

• Participate in the sales process as a subject matter expert

• Establish and uphold coding standards, testing protocols, and quality assurance processes across teams.

• Proactively identify and resolve technical and organizational challenges, removing obstacles to team success.

• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, professional growth, and adoption of emerging technologies within the team.

Role Summary

At Avanade, a Project Operations Functional Consultant (ERP Focus) plays a client‑facing advisory role, responsible for shaping, configuring, and delivering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations solutions that drive business outcomes. The role bridges business requirements and platform capabilities, ensuring solutions align to Microsoft best practices and Avanade delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery workshops and analyze end‑to‑end business processes across Project Operations Lite implementation.
• Translate business needs into functional solution designs, fit‑gap analyses, and configuration decisions.
• Configure Dynamics 365 Project Operations components including:
  • Entities, forms, views, business rules
  • Business Process Flows, workflows, and Power Automate flows.
• Act as the functional authority on projects, advising clients on Dynamics 365 best practices and roadmap implications.
• Collaborate with technical consultants on integrations, customizations, and data migration.
• Translate functional requirements that are gaps into functional design documents. 
• Define data migration, template definitions, and work with customers during data migration. 
• Create and manage work items in Azure DevOps 
• Define and execute UAT strategies, test scenarios, and validation plans.
• Deliver training, enablement, and knowledge transfer to client teams.