Productivity Studio MW Technical Lead

Avanade Inc.
Seattle, WA, United States
16 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Data Hub DevOps Design of User Interfaces Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Microsoft Software Systems Development Life Cycle Software Engineering
+4 more
Systems Architecture Value Engineering Microsoft Power Automate Powerapps

Job description

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:

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. 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

Requirements

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., Agile Programming Methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Skills, C-Level Management, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Establish Priorities, Leadership, Leading Edge Technology, Legal, Machine Learning, Maintain Compliance, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Windows Azure, Negotiation Skills, Onboarding, Pre-Sales, Return on Investment (ROI), Risk Management, Sales Management, Sales Support, Six Sigma Black Belt, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Solution Sales, System Architecture, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design, Thought Leadership, Training/Teaching, Use Cases, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Value Engineering

Benefits & conditions

  • 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

About the company

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!, At Avanade, our vision is to be the leading digital innovator, creating great experiences as we realize results for our clients and their customers through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Through thousands of projects, we’ve transformed businesses for the digital world. We’ve helped them create compelling experiences for their customers and employees. We’ve reduced costs, increased productivity, enabled collaboration and enhanced agility - and ultimately improved performance.

Company Size: 10,000 employees or more

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