Lead Software Architect Our fast, client-focused, dynamic environment wants your consulting management skills and desire to make a difference. Use Avanade’s tech, innovation and leadership to make a genuine human impact. Enjoy seeing an impact on clients, too, as you solve interesting challenges in a way that’s flexible to your approach to work—and life. Chart your own software engineering career path with us. Come join us As a Manager on Avanade Irelands Software Engineering Practice, you’ll leverage a client-centric approach to translate our client’s business strategy into applications, solutions and services that lead to successful, impactful outcomes. You’ll engage in solutioning and support on the most strategic opportunities, intervene on high-risk complex deliveries and contribute to shape the strategic direction around application architecture.   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! Together we do what matters. What you'll do * As an architect/ tech lead assigned to a client project, you will typically work closely with delivery teams and client stakeholders to provide technical leadership, drive architectural decisions, create plans and roadmaps, and produce design artifacts for client applications . * You will help clients in their journey to Microsoft Azure or to leverage their existing investment in it, you can expect a significant focus on applying cloud architectural patterns and migration strategies. * With some of your time allocated to solution architecture, you will play a key role in Avanade's sales process with the responsibility for shaping the high-level design, estimates and contractual details for client proposals in collaboration with other subject matter experts in the business. * As a senior member of the Avanade technical community, you will also be expected to provide coaching and mentoring to motivate and inspire more junior colleagues from within your team and across the organisation. Skills and experiencesss  * Working with stakeholders to create technical visions, high-level architectures, and delivery roadmaps, for large programs of work for .NET/C# applications either on-prem or in the Azure cloud * Creating design artefacts and presenting them for approval at architectural forums attended by multi-disciplined stakeholders from engineering to senior ("C level") client executives. * Identifying and applying cloud native architectural styles and design patterns. * Identifying and designing for key architectural characteristics such as performance, security and reliability. About you * Characteristics that can spell success for this role * Consultative, collaborative, curious * Resilient, adaptable, flexible * Humble leader, master negotiator, relationship builder * Keen to support the growth of junior colleagues * Passionate about tech and engaging with and advising clients Enjoy your career * Some of the best things about working at Avanade * People-first culture that supports innovation and encourages people to move forward * Turn your ideas to human impact by cultivating a team that will help clients unlock what’s next * Opportunities to innovate in the Microsoft platform while charting your own career path * On-the-job growth through hackathons, innovation contests, and other expressions of our passion for innovating with purpose * Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here. A great place to work We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] 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 Learn more To Learn more about the types of projects our Software Engineering team works across the UKI on check out these case studies: * [3] Legrand upgrades the field service experience with modern mobile apps * [4] Centrica Trading credited with an industry-first migration to the cloud * [5] Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches * [6] Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs: * [7] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation * [8] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade References Visible links 1. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits 2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity 3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/legrand 4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/centrica-energy-trading 5. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/hachette-automated-identification 6. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/marston-holdings 7. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights 8. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade