The Solution Area Lead Apps & Infrastructure drives growth, delivery excellence, and capability-building for Avanade’s Microsoft-powered application modernization and cloud infrastructure portfolio. You will shape strategy, build high-performing teams, lead complex client engagements, and partner closely with Microsoft to deliver measurable outcomes across cloud adoption, app modernization, DevOps, security, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

Practice & Portfolio Leadership

• Define and execute the Apps & Infra practice strategy aligned to Microsoft Cloud (Azure) and Avanade offerings.
• Own the portfolio across App Modernization, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering/DevOps, Cloud Operations, and Security-by-design.
• Build repeatable offers, accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks for faster, consistent delivery.
• Establish governance for quality, risk, compliance, delivery assurance, and reusable IP.

Client Advisory & Architecture Leadership

• Act as senior advisor to CIO/CTO/Heads of Engineering on:




• Application modernization (rehost/refactor/replatform/rebuild)
• Cloud landing zones and enterprise-scale platform design
• Resiliency, performance, security, and compliance frameworks

• Lead architecture and design reviews for large programs (multi-team, multi-region, regulated environments).
• Drive best practices across Azure Well-Architected, SRE principles, and up-to-date engineering standards.

Growth, Sales & Microsoft Partnership

• Own practice-level pipeline: identify opportunities, shape pursuits, and close deals.
• Lead pre-sales activities: solutioning, estimates, SoWs, proposals, and executive presentations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Microsoft stakeholders; co-sell and co-innovate.
• Develop industry-specific value propositions and demonstrate ROI (cost optimization, time-to-market, resilience, security posture).

Delivery & Program Oversight

• Provide executive oversight for key accounts and programs; ensu

📌 Solution Area Lead-Infrastructure/Azure Platform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Avanade
📍 Bengaluru