Azure Platform Architecture Practice Lead

Avanade
Madrid
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Architecture & Urban PlanningSkills: ["People leadership","Coaching","Stakeholder management","Analytical thinking","Communication"]

Lead the people and capability agenda for an Azure Platform Practice across Iberia. Translate market and client demand into workforce planning, skills assessment, learning and certifications, succession, engagement, retention, and chargeability/utilization. Partner with sales, solutioning, and delivery to ensure capability readiness and staffing assumptions are visible early. Drive a responsible adoption of Generative AI to improve engineering productivity and platform operations while building an inclusive practitioner community.

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Avanade
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Azure Platform Architecture Practice Lead

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Job Summary

Lead the people and capability agenda for an Azure Platform Practice across Iberia. Translate market and client demand into workforce planning, skills assessment, learning and certifications, succession, engagement, retention, and chargeability/utilization. Partner with sales, solutioning, and delivery to ensure capability readiness and staffing assumptions are visible early. Drive a responsible adoption of Generative AI to improve engineering productivity and platform operations while building an inclusive practitioner community.
Location: Madrid
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Architecture & Urban Planning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the people and capability agenda for the Azure Platform Practice in Iberia, covering workforce planning, skills assessment, learning, certifications, career development, succession, engagement, retention, and future leader development.
  • •Anticipate capability and capacity needs by translating market and client demand into build, hire, borrow, and deploy actions to address critical skill gaps.
  • •Own practice-level chargeability/utilization by matching people and capabilities to demand, managing availability and staffing risks, and ensuring selection based on technical foundation and adaptability for future Azure Platform work.
  • •Partner with sales, solutioning, and delivery teams to provide early visibility of capability readiness, staffing assumptions, reusable assets, delivery constraints, and technical risks for profitable, deliverable opportunities.
  • •Shape and promote responsible Generative AI adoption across the practice, identifying ideas that improve engineering productivity, platform operations, solution design, knowledge reuse, asset creation, and client outcomes.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience leading people, capabilities, or technical communities in a consulting or professional services environment, accountable for workforce planning, talent development, staffing, utilization, and chargeability.
  • •Proven ability to build high-performing, inclusive teams and communities through coaching, career development, performance support, succession planning, engagement, retention, and identifying adaptable talent.
  • •Strong business awareness partnering with sales, solutioning, and delivery teams to convert demand forecasts into capability plans and provide early visibility of staffing assumptions and technical risks.
  • •Broad and credible knowledge of Azure Platform and cloud engineering, including governance, security, automation, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud modernization.
  • •Practical knowledge of Generative AI (AI-assisted engineering and agentic solutions) with curiosity to propose how GenAI can enhance Azure Platform offerings and practitioner productivity.
Experience:ConsultingProfessional servicesCloud engineering
Skills:People leadershipCoachingStakeholder managementAnalytical thinkingCommunication
Tech Stack:AzureCloud engineeringGovernanceSecurityAutomationDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeCloud modernizationGenerative AIAI-assisted engineeringAgentic solutionsKnowledge management

Company Brief

Avanade
Global digital innovation and IT services company delivering Microsoft-based cloud, digital and application services. Partners with enterprises to design, build and run business solutions across cloud, data, AI, modern workplace and industry-specific transformations.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2000
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