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Modern Workplace Technical Lead

Avanade · Seattle, WA, USA ·

Pay:
$155,000-$184,000/yr
Job type:
Full Time

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.

What You'll Do

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

Qualifications

Core Technical Skills:

  • Microsoft Azure Architecture
  • Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse)
  • AI / Machine Learning / Copilot frameworks
  • Experience in enterprise architecture, DevOps, and cloud-native solutions

Delivery & Architecture:

  • Technical architecture leadership
  • End-to-end solution delivery
  • Agile and DevOps execution

Consulting & Business Skills:

  • Strong client engagement and stakeholder management
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Experience in pre-sales and solution shaping

Key Success Metrics:

  • Delivery of high-impact, production-ready solutions
  • Measurable business value / ROI per use case
  • Adoption of AI-native / agentic delivery patterns
  • Improvement in delivery velocity, quality, and reusability

About You

An effective and compelling communicator with experience of managing clients and stakeholders up to C-Level.

Able to create and deliver findings and recommendations in a clear and convincing manner.

Passionate about trends and technical/industry thought leadership.

A proven leader with strong influencing and negotiation capabilities.

Preferable a Microsoft Global Black Belt.

Understanding and experience of AI within this field is also a benefit.

Benefits

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.

  • California: 155,000- 184,000
  • Cleveland: 140,000- 165,000
  • Colorado: 140,000- 165,000
  • District of Columbia: 155,000- 184,000
  • Illinois: 150,000- 178,000
  • Maryland: 155,000- 184,000
  • Massachusetts: 155,000- 184,000
  • Minnesota: 150,000- 178,000
  • New York: 165,000- 195,000
  • New Jersey: 140,000- 165,000
  • Washington: 155,000- 184,000

U.S. Employee Benefits | Avanade

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