Group Manager, Modern Workplace Application Architect

Job description

Unleash Your Power: Transform Businesses as a Modern Workplace Technical Architect and Redefine the Future of Solutions and how work gets done!

Come join us

Welcome to the world of Modern Workplace Architect! Join as a seasoned solution architect, transforming businesses by designing and developing customizations on Microsoft 365, namely Teams, Power Platform, and Copilot for M365. Lead technical teams as a transformational architect, empowering success with solution design, user experience, and process analysis and automation. Elevate your career and redefine excellence with us!

Together we do what matters.

Skills and experiences

• Expertise in building solutions that integrate and extend Microsoft 365, Teams, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, Teams Message Extensions, Azure Functions, and Copilot Studio.
• Experience with the Power Platform suite of products (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Pages, and Dataverse) for developing solutions on Teams and SharePoint.
• Basic understanding of the Microsoft Copilot Landscape, including an understanding of the capabilities of existing products within the ecosystem such as Microsoft Copilot for 365.
• Familiarity with the extensibility frameworks surrounding these products, such as Copilot Studio and Microsoft Graph extensibility.
• Experience with developing custom solutions with C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, or TypeScript. The application of these within the Microsoft Bot Framework SDK is a plus.

About you

You're an organized problem-solver with a talent for business, whose knowledge and experience helps turn business needs into solutions. You guide and support your team, whether at home or around the globe, to provide successful and accessible AI solutions that solve client problems. You likely have

• Extensive experience in IT consulting and services, with a focus on data, applications, and workflows solutions.
• Proven experience leading and managing technical medium to large on-shore and off-shore teams and projects.
• Relevant Certifications in Microsoft technologies: O365, Teams, Power Platform, AI, Azure
• Experience with some of the following languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, or TypeScript.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• The ability to talk openly and easily about use cases in multiple industries (Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Resources, etc.) and articulate value
• Experience driving overall project goals and making calculated decisions to drive innovation

What you'll do

• Orchestrate seamless technical implementations, guiding projects through discovery, definition, build, test, and triumphant deployment.

• Pioneering the way, lead the development, integration, and extension of Microsoft products, crafting bespoke solutions that exceed client aspirations.

• Assume the mantle of quality guardian, ensuring every solution delivered showcases excellence in design and performance.

• Empower our global Avanade team with invaluable insights, developing assets and sharing best practices for solutions that ignite innovation.

• As a keen estimator, contribute your analytical expertise to craft precise solution estimates, encompassing skills, effort, licensing, and beyond.

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Software Engineering team works on check out these case studies:

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/techs-and-specs/data-and-analytics/power-platform-connections

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/techs-and-specs/software-development/automation-migration-history

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade

Compensation for roles at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors including but 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 in California, Colorado, and Washington as set forth below and https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits

Washington: Range $184,000 to $193,000

California: Los Angeles Range $184,000 to $193,000

California: San Diego Range $177,000 to $187,000

Colorado (Range $164,000 to $173,000

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)
• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits Employee Benefits at Avanade | Avanade

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