Modern Workplace Technical Lead

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.

Come Join Us

This role combines technical leadership, solutioning, and delivery ownership, ensuring that Productivity Studio engagements deliver measurable business outcomes at scale while adhering to enterprise-grade standards.

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 stakeholders
• Drive 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

Skills & Experiences:

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.

A Great Place To Work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity  page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking
• Experimenting courageously
• Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice
• Encouraging boldness
• Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client
• Prioritizing what matters
• Acting as one
• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Enjoy Your Career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications

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.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted on 06/08/2026 and open for at least 3 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: U.S. Employee Benefits | Avanade

Role Location Annual Salary Range

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