Solution Area Lead-Infrastructure/Azure Platform

Avanade Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade Inc. seeks a Solution Area Lead Apps & Infrastructure to drive growth, delivery excellence, and capability-building around Azure-based application modernization and cloud infra.

You will shape strategy, build teams, lead complex client engagements, and partner with Microsoft to deliver measurable outcomes in cloud adoption, security, and operations. You will own the practice, guide large programs, and mentor architects and engineers while ensuring delivery excellence and ROI for clients

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• 15-20+ years in tech consulting, delivery, or leadership with MS/Azure depth.
• Proven leadership of large transformation programs and multi-million pursuits.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Apps & Infra strategy aligned to Azure and Avanade.
• Own portfolio across App Modernization, Cloud Infra, Platform Eng/DevOps, Sec-by-design.
• Build repeatable offers, accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks.
• Establish governance for quality, risk, compliance, and delivery IP.
• Lead architecture reviews for large multi-team programs and regulated environments.
• Drive Azure Well-Architected, SRE practices, and modern eng standards.

Skills

Leadership

Executive comms

Stakeholder mgmt

Azure architecture

Cloud strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

GitHub

Kubernetes

Job description

• Hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity

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 design
• Resiliency, performance, security, and compliance frameworks
• Lead 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 migration
• Hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity
• Enterprise 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 patterns
• Azure compute (VMs, AKS), storage, Azure SQL, PaaS patterns
• Resilience 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 patterns
• Integration with Microsoft ecosystem (Entra ID, Key Vault, Service Bus/Event Hubs, Functions, Logic Apps)

DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

• GitHub / Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), policy-as-code
• Secure SDLC, secrets management, supply-chain security

Developer platform concepts (golden paths, reusable templates, inner-source)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 15-20+ years in technology consulting, delivery, or engineering leadership with significant Microsoft/Azure depth.
• Proven leadership of large transformation programs and multi-million-dollar purs ues.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.