Avanade

Imagine what kind of company you would like to work for.

  • An organization with reach and resources of a big, global player and the culture of a start-up.
  • A place where you can build credentials on the world’s leading digital platform through certifications and opportunities to innovate across the Microsoft ecosystem.
  • An organization that knows the best way to serve clients well is to focus on people.
  • An environment where each person’s unique perspective is embraced, where everyone is encouraged to be themselves.
  • A market leader that knows the best is yet to come for the company and its people.
  • A responsible business leader that innovates not just for technology’s sake, but to make a genuine human impact for clients, colleagues, and communities.

At Avanade, we have a bold ambition to be the world’s leading digital innovator, making a genuine human impact for our clients, our people and our communities. We combine entrepreneurial thinking with the strength and reach of our Microsoft and Accenture heritage, and we harness the power of our diverse backgrounds to create a community of exceptional talent.

If you’re ready to join 56,000 professionals in 26 countries who are passionate, collaborative and agile, Avanade is the right place for you.

At Avanade, the possibilities are endless

  • 10,000 projects – 4,000+ global clients
  • 20% average year-on-year growth since 2000
  • Training: Avanade’s partnerships provide cutting edge learning opportunities to employees subsidized professional development and certification opportunities
  • Microsoft world record holder as #1 most certified partner globally with 17,000 certified employees

Nurturing a diverse and inclusive workforce:

We welcome people of all ages, abilities, orientations, and we give you both the support you need to succeed and opportunities to shine.

Career opportunities

These are just an example of the types of job opportunity the company offers. More information on available positions will be available at the Summit.

Software Engineer

Data engineer

Analytics Architect

Cloud Engineer

Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant

Security Architect

About

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Every day, our 56,000 professionals in 26 countries make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees, and their customers.
With the most Microsoft certifications (60,000+) and 18 (out of 18) Gold-level Microsoft competencies, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses grow and solve their toughest challenges.
We are a people first company, committed to providing an inclusive workplace where employees feel comfortable being their authentic selves. As a responsible business, we are building a sustainable world and helping young people from underrepresented communities fulfill their potential.

Software Engineer

 

Avanade is the world’s leading digital innovator and believe in making genuine human impact in everything we do. This is through the power of our people and cutting-edge Microsoft Technology.

By joining Avanade’s software engineering practice you will have fantastic opportunity to operate at the forefront of technology, with access to best clients across the world, on challenging and exciting projects.

We are a diverse team, and we are proud of our culture that welcomes every individual. In our teams you will find talented and passionate technologists, with a humble, collaborative, and positive attitude.

If you are the type of person who thrives of constantly learning and challenging yourself with a genuine desire to do your best, then you could be successful here. We promise to invest in you and help give you the platform for continuous learning and development.

 

Why Avanade?

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join one of our engineering teams. You will have the genuine opportunity to unleash your full potential and creativity on a variety of interesting software projects, developing internet scale solutions in the Microsoft cloud.

You will actively be contributing to the design & development of software products that impact millions of users daily on a global scale and make a real difference.

You will work alongside very talented, motivated, and friendly teams, consistently growing as you work at the forefront of Microsoft technologies. Avanade provides one of the best environments for Microsoft technology professionals to really develop the markets most in demand skills at pace.

This opportunity is ideal for those with a good level of proven experience working with the .Net Framework within the Azure Cloud. You will have experience in the development and deployment of Microservices and are also passionate about executing clean code, following TDD and peer programming.

 

What you will Be Doing:

  • Delivering high-quality software which is future proof, scalable and in-keeping with product development standards. Taking a test-first approach from business requirements through to code
  • Peering with other developers on code reviews to coach and learn
  • Using the latest tech, .NET Core and a large number of Azure Services
  • Working as part of an enthusiastic and motivated agile development team, comprising software engineers, QAs and Business Analysts, to ensure the technical requirements of the marketing team are met in the most efficient way
  • Continually develop and improve our code and technology, whilst playing an active role in the conception of product development for our global customers
  • Bring your experience to bear in pro-actively contributions to project planning

 

We would love to meet someone, with some:

  • Experience using the latest versions of .NET Framework, .NET Standard and .NET Core (C#).
  • Microservices, API first and event driven architecture experience
  • Experience in Azure technologies: Azure Service Bus., Azure Cloud Services / Azure Functions., Azure Cosmos DB.
  • GitOps / Azure DevOps
  • Acceptance Test Driven Development/ Business Driven development
  • Experience of working within agile (SCRUM and Kanban) project environments
  • Strong understanding and practitioner of Software Development Lifecycle

Data engineer

 

Analytics uses data and math to answer business questions, discover relationships, predict unknown outcomes, and automate decisions. This diverse field of computer science is used to find meaningful patterns in data and uncover new knowledge based on applied mathematics, statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning techniques. Our practices are including everyone working across Analytics Architecture, Advanced Analytics, Analytics Experience and Data Engineering and much more. The Databricks League is an Avanade and Accenture community of Databricks enthusiasts which gives you exclusive access to the latest news about Azure Databricks, best practices and offers networking opportunities. The League is the first and only partner community endorsed by Databricks.

 

Why Avanade?

With Avanade, you get the opportunity to work with the latest technology in socially beneficial projects, as well as help to reach your full potential so that you grow and develop. We have two parent companies that give us a strong Microsoft ecosystem with space to be ourselves. People who thrive here are motivated, interested in learning and genuinely have a desire to be the best at what they do. If that sounds like you, then we’re the perfect match. You’ll have access to the latest technology in the Microsoft ecosystem, partnering with some of the biggest and best companies across the world and some seriously smart people to work with to make career-defining things happen. If you want to get even better at what you do and transform businesses from the inside out, there is no better place.

 

What you will Be Doing:

As Data Engineer, you’ll use modern data engineering techniques and advanced analytics methods to give your clients the information they need. You collect, aggregate, store and reconcile data from multiple sources, helping to design and build data pipelines, streams, reporting tools, data generators, and a whole range of tools to provide information and insight. Your work gives people the tools they need to find and use data for routine and non-routine analysis.

  • Support the planning and implementation of data design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance and performing needs assessments, as well as delivering analytics and storage architectures, based on the Microsoft Azure platform.
  • Develop and maintain data warehouse schematics, layouts, architectures, and relational databases for data storage, sometimes also for Big Data solutions.
  • Customize data storage and extraction, database architecture, metadata, and repository creation.
  • Implement effective metrics and monitoring processes.
  • Visualize data using Power BI or other relevant tools.

 

We would love to meet someone, with some:

You really know your way around database technology and data reporting tools. And you also understand the point of it all—to produce solid insights to drive business decisions. You have an analytical mind on top of excellent technical skills.

  • Knowledge of database storage, collection and aggregation models, techniques and technologies, and the ability to apply such methods to solve business problems.
  • Knowledge of the Microsoft Azure platform, with a focus on Analytics components (Azure Data Factory Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Databases, Stream Analytics, etc).
  • Extensive SQL experience or other data transformation/management languages like Python or Spark.
  • Knowledge of Power BI.
  • Knowledge of PowerShell or C# is a plus.
  • Knowledge of structured problem-solving assignments

Analytics Architect

 

Analytics uses data and math to answer business questions, discover relationships, predict unknown outcomes and automate decisions. This diverse field of computer science is used to find meaningful patterns in data and uncover new knowledge based on applied mathematics, statistics, predictive modeling and machine learning techniques. Our practice includes everyone working across Analytics Architecture, Advanced Analytics, Analytics Experience and Data Engineering and much more. The Databricks League is an Avanade and Accenture community of Databricks enthusiasts which gives you exclusive access to the latest news about Azure Databricks, best practices and offers networking opportunities. The League is the first and only partner community endorsed by Databricks.

 

Why Avanade?

With Avanade, you get the opportunity to work with the latest technology in socially beneficial projects, as well as help to reach your full potential so that you grow and develop. We have two parent companies that give us a strong Microsoft ecosystem with space to be ourselves. People who thrive here are motivated, interested in learning and genuinely have a desire to be the best at what they do. If that sounds like you, then we’re the perfect match. You’ll have access to the latest technology in the Microsoft ecosystem, partnering with some of the biggest and best companies across the world and some seriously smart people to work with to make career-defining things happen. If you want to get even better at what you do and transform businesses from the inside out, there’s no better place.

 

What you will Be Doing:

As an Analytics Architect, you work with our customers to identify, document and translate their business strategy and requirements into solutions and services that enable them to achieve their business goals using AI and Analytics. The most important thing in this role is that you are an expert in choosing the optimal architecture and delivery approach to help them further. You balance costs, capacities and risks in order to achieve an optimal solution. Because the demand for Data and AI solutions is increasing, as an Analytics Architect you are extremely important to Avanade, because you ensure that we can help new and existing customers together with their issues in this area.

In this role you are responsible for Client Roadmaps, program building, integrating intelligent processes into existing business processes and solution planning to help our customers achieve their goals. The scope of the projects can include various data (Including IoT) and Advanced Analytics components, such as Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Machine Learning, NLP, Data Interaction and Visualization, all on the Microsoft Azure platform. If you are suitable for this role, you are an advisor to the customer that they can trust in this area and help them in the complicated and exciting world of data.

 

We would love to meet someone, with some:

  • You have experience in choosing the right architecture to optimally help the customer to gain insight into their data
  • You have strong knowledge of the benefits of AI, Data, (Azure) PaaS and DevOps, and can also transfer them well
  • You can communicate your passion and knowledge about analytics to stakeholders in a non-technical way
  • You have a passion for AI
  • You understand data management and data governance, data catalogs and master data management
  • You have an Azure Solutions Architect Expert and / or an Azure Data Engineer Associate certification
  • You have knowledge of (relational) databases, data modeling, reporting, data warehouses, metadata and ETL.

Cloud Engineer

 

Why Avanade?

With Avanade, you get the opportunity to work with the latest technology in socially beneficial projects, as well as help to reach your full potential so that you grow and develop. We have two parent companies that give us a strong Microsoft ecosystem with space to be ourselves. People who thrive here are motivated, interested in learning and genuinely have a desire to be the best at what they do. If that sounds like you, then we are the perfect match. You will have access to the latest technology in the Microsoft ecosystem, partnering with some of the biggest and best companies across the world and some seriously smart people to work with to make career-defining things happen. If you want to get even better at what you do and transform businesses from the inside out, there is no better place. Your development is central to us. We have a strong focus on the career and development opportunities of all our people. Everyone has a career advisor who works with you to create a plan and guides you in choosing from the many training opportunities we offer. We welcome you to an inclusive culture characterized by ambition and innovation.

 

What you will Be Doing:

Our Cloud Engineers design, build and operate scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions for our clients hosted in Azure and our Hybrid-Cloud solution. You will have a solid understanding of cloud fundamentals including deployment methods, security of cloud solutions and cost management and use these to continually improve the infrastructures we deploy and manage for our clients. In this role, you will work over our portfolio of clients where we deliver and support solutions with Windows, Linux and Cloud varying from traditional infrastructure to cloud native, from Active Directory to Machine Learning and Enterprise Migrations to Mission Critical Application Hosting.

 

We would love to meet someone, with some:

As a person you are committed to the cloud, your colleagues and to helping your customers by providing them with the tools and processes that will change their business. You are a good communicator with a talent for technology, who really wants to make your customers understand and realize the real benefits of a Modern Workplace. You should have some experience with some of the following areas:

  • Automation (IaC) through ARM / Terraform / Bicep
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipeline)
  • PaaS services such as App Service, Functions, Service Bus and Logic apps
  • IaaS services such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, NSG's and Load Balancers
  • Azure AD
  • Scripting in PowerShell/Bash

Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant

 

Why Avanade?

The Infrastructure team play an instrumental part in doing what Avanade does best: we design and run the foundational core of our innovative digital solutions for our clients, working with them to transform their businesses for the future.

We are a friendly, enthusiastic, and diverse bunch of people. We would love to bring on more people who are just as passionate for technology as we are; people that love to learn new skills and grow their careers, all while enjoying a good work-life balance and a good social life after work.

Come and work with the best Microsoft technologists. Be part of a team that innovates and develops revolutionary solutions for our clients, delivering tomorrows technology today.

 

What you will Be Doing:

As a Microsoft Infrastructure Expert, you will be responsible for the implementation of Microsoft-based products and technologies, such as datacenter transformation and virtualization, desktop and workplace IT infrastructure solutions, application and server infrastructure.

  • Deliver technical solutions as per specified plans, deliverables, costs and timelines
  • Manage multiple responsibilities and assignments while maintaining a high level of quality
  • Work in team environments that span functional and geographic boundaries
  • Document technical issues, solutions and support information

 

We would love to meet someone, with some:

  • O365/Azure infrastructure enterprise level projects
  • Enterprise Messaging Migration: Migrate platforms (legacy Microsoft and 3rd-party) to Microsoft Office 365 and Exchange Server 2016
  • Enterprise Directories: Deploy enterprise-wide business directories
  • Server Consolidation: Maximize resources that are under-utilized to increase reliability and centralize administration
  • Desktop Transformation: Execute desktop transformations

Security Architect

 

Why Avanade?

Avanade is the employer of choice if you want to work with Microsoft technology at a high level. Avanade is a Microsoft Gold Partner with four security advanced specializations. The security community within Avanade is ambitious and you can contribute to the growth of our team. We value your professional development and growth, that is why we offer you lots of learning opportunities to boost your career: webinars, exclusive training sessions and Microsoft exam vouchers. Moreover, our projects are at interesting (international) clients which provides the opportunity to keep improving yourself.

You will be working on some of the largest and leading-edge technology projects; the role of the Cloud Security Architect to play an active role in transforming our client’s security on their Microsoft platforms through designing and implementing Microsoft security technologies on-premises and in the cloud.

 

What you will Be Doing:

In a client-facing consultancy role, you will work on exciting projects to transform our client’s security strategy and operations through the design and implementation of predominantly Microsoft threat protection technologies. As a member of our security practice, you will be working for customers, ranging from medium to large global enterprises. Join a curious and diverse team that’s passionate about next-gen tech and establish yourself as a leader in the Cyber Defense space. Together, let’s transform cybersecurity.

You will help and support our clients with the design, deployment, and understanding of their Microsoft Security Roadmap. More specifically, you will use your knowledge on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, and other Microsoft security solutions, to ensure that their workplaces, infrastructure and data remain secure and resistant against threats.

 

We would love to meet someone, with some:

    • You are comfortable leading workshops with client stakeholders of all levels: C-suite, mid-management and technical IT security staff
    • As a Security Architect you are responsible for the technical and security design of the solutions proposed to our customers.
    • You should also be able to effectively convey security risks to technical as well as non-technical stakeholders.
    • You are required to have technical experience across Microsoft security solutions such as:
      • Microsoft Defender products (MSDE, MSDO, MSDI, MCAS).
      • Microsoft Sentinel.
      • Azure AD including hybrid identities, for instance AAD Connect, ADFS, PHS, and PTA.
      • Azure Information Protection.
      • Azure PIM.
      • Intune, etc.

You are not required to be an expert on all areas and products but should be interested on continuous learn and improving your skills on the MS Security solutions as required.

  • Preferably in possession of one of the relevant (MS) certifications (e.g., MS-500; AZ-500; SC-X), or other vendors such as SSCP, CompTIA Security+, CCSP, CISSP or you have comparable experience and can prove equivalent knowledge.