Solution Area Lead-Infrastructure/Azure Platform

Avanade Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade Inc. in Bengaluru seeks a Solution Area Lead for Apps & Infra to drive growth, delivery excellence, and capability-building across Microsoft-powered modernization and cloud infrastructure.

Shape strategy, lead high-performing teams, and steward complex client engagements with Microsoft collaboration to deliver outcomes in cloud adoption, security, and operations. You will own practice strategy, governance, and delivery across app modernization, cloud infra, DevOps, and platform

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-region, large-scale programs.
• Proven ability to define strategy and governance for Cloud platforms.
• Strong collaboration with Microsoft and client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute practice strategy aligned to Azure and Avanade offerings.
• Own portfolio across App Modernization, Cloud Infra, DevOps, and Security-by-design.
• Lead architecture reviews for large programs and ensure delivery to scope and budget.
• Drive pre-sales activities, estimates, and executive presentations.
• Build repeatable offers, reference architectures, and IP assets.

Skills

Strategic Leadership

Cloud Architecture

Microsoft Azure

Delivery Oversight

Pre-sales

People Management

Microsoft Partnership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Bicep

Job description

The Solution Area Lead Apps & Infrastructure drives growth, delivery excellence, and capability-building for Avanade’s Microsoft-powered application modernization and cloud infrastructure portfolio. You will shape strategy, build high-performing teams, lead complex client engagements, and partner closely with Microsoft to deliver measurable outcomes across cloud adoption, app modernization, DevOps, security, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

Practice & Portfolio Leadership

Define and execute the Apps & Infra practice strategy aligned to Microsoft Cloud (Azure) and Avanade offerings.

Own the portfolio across App Modernization, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering/DevOps, Cloud Operations, and Security-by-design.

Build repeatable offers, accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks for faster, consistent delivery.

Establish governance for quality, risk, compliance, delivery assurance, and reusable IP.

Client Advisory & Architecture Leadership

Act as senior advisor to CIO/CTO/Heads of Engineering on:Application modernization (rehost/refactor/replatform/rebuild)Cloud landing zones and enterprise-scale platform designResiliency, performance, security, and compliance frameworksLead architecture and design reviews for large programs (multi-team, multi-region, regulated environments).Drive best practices across Azure Well-Architected, SRE principles, and modern engineering standards.

Growth, Sales & Microsoft Partnership

Own practice-level pipeline: identify opportunities, shape pursuits, and close deals.

Lead pre-sales activities: solutioning, estimates, SoWs, proposals, and executive presentations.

Build and maintain strong relationships with Microsoft stakeholders; co-sell and co-innovate.

Develop industry-specific value propositions and demonstrate ROI (cost optimization, time-to-market, resilience, security posture).

Delivery & Program Oversight

Provide executive oversight for key accounts and programs; ensure delivery to scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes.

Establish delivery metrics (velocity, quality, stability, availability, cost) and continuously improve.

Sponsor complex migrations and transformations:Datacenter exit / cloud migrationHybrid/multi-cloud connectivityEnterprise DevSecOps rollouts.

People Leadership & Capability Building

Build, mentor, and scale multi-disciplinary teams (architects, engineers, SRE, DevOps, cloud ops).

Create career paths, skills matrices, learning plans, and certification targets.

Drive hiring strategy and talent planning; build a strong bench and partner ecosystem.

Microsoft-Centric Technical Scope (What you’re expected to be strong in)

You don’t need to hands-on code daily, but you must be able to lead design decisions, challenge teams, and speak credibly with senior client stakeholders.

Azure Cloud & Infrastructure Azure Landing Zones / enterprise-scale design (identity, network, security, governance)Hub-spoke, vWAN, Private Link, DNS, connectivity patternsAzure compute (VMs, AKS), storage, Azure SQL, PaaS patternsResilience and DR patterns, multi-region architecture, observability

Application Modernization Modernization strategies (6Rs), domain-driven modernization, microservices and event-driven design.NET modernization, containerization, API management patternsIntegration with Microsoft ecosystem (Entra ID, Key Vault, Service Bus/Event Hubs, Functions, Logic Apps)

DevSecOps & Platform EngineeringGitHub / Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), policy-as-codeSecure SDLC, secrets management, supply-chain securityDeveloper platform concepts (golden paths, reusable templates, inner-source)

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