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Avanade Inc. Modern Workplace Architect in Calgary, Alberta
About the role:
Do you thrive on identifying and recommending custom technology solutions that improve employee experiences, productivity, and effectiveness? Great! So, do we!
Avanade is a global leader for Modern Workplace and Employee Experience transformation and managed services. Our Workplace Platform Modernization offering helps clients identify, design, and implement solutions on the Microsoft 365 platform. These solutions include Active Directory, Windows 10, Intune/SCCM, Office 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange, and the Microsoft E5 security suite.
As a Modern Workplace Architect for Workplace Platform Modernization, you will be involved in leading transformations projects for our clients, growing our delivery teams capabilities and working together with the presales team to solution deals.
You will architect and lead the development of complex Modern Workplace conversations with clients and drive technical requirements workshops, translating these requirements into compelling proposals and statements of work.
As a Modern Workplace Architect focused on Infrastructure, you will be leading or coordinating technical delivery and oversight of projects for our Clients utilizing Microsoft Modern Workplace technologies
This includes:
Broad technical acumen across the Microsoft Modern Workplace capabilities
Leading or coordinating cross-functional project/program teams from design to delivery of fully developed products that are ready for client/customer use
Assess and conduct project team capabilities and performance reviews.
Monitoring project performance and recommending schedule changes, cost and/or resource adjustments
Providing timely and accurate updates to functional leaders at the client as well as Avanade.
Ensuring project results meet requirements regarding the overall technical solution with quality and reliability while schedule and cost
Analyzes current system architecture and data models
Supporting/Leading pre-sales opportunities
Product demand positioning, design, marketing, operations and technical development
Responding to RFPs and winning new Modern Workplace business
About you:
You are an experienced business technology transformation practitioner, with over 10 years of technical delivery, sales generation, solution shaping, estimating, and delivery leadership. This experience includes working within a consultancy or systems integrator. You project an expert level of knowledge and a high degree of creativity about how to use Microsoft and other technologies to deliver business value. You can quickly earn the respect of our clients as you engage with them and lead meetings, projects, and presales pursuits.
In addition, your professional skillset should include:
Experience leading Office 365 transformations including implementation of Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, and SharePoint.
Experience with upgrading to Windows 11, SCCM & Intune. Also experience with Virtualization, specifically Azure Virtual Desktops and Windows 36. Understanding and experience with modern management is a plus.
Experience and understanding of workplace security with Microsoft EMS E5 suite
Experience with Tenant migrations, GSuite migration to Microsoft
Experience with sales principles and practices, including business development, marketing, and complex channel management
Ability to effectively team with peers in a large, matrixed organizations, including experience with offshore teams and delivery
Experience delivering solutions for client organizations through complex solutions / projects with heavy client interaction
Strong consulting / project-based background, including assessing and managing the opportunity and risk associated with large scale, complex projects.
Experience writing and responding to RFP/RFI/RFT documents and presenting to clients
Consultative, collaborative, relationship builder
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 https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits
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 our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, but to also 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 https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-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
Learn more
To learn more about the types of projects our Analytics team works on check out these client stories:
[1] https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/fresenius
[2] https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/bbu-gmbh
Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blog:
[3] https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
References
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https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/fresenius
https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/bbu-gmbh
https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insight