Manager – Power Platform Architect SME

Role and Organization Context

The ICOE is a single organization that brings together Avanade’s existing COEs to deliver excellence at scale. Its mission focuses on strengthening client and partner relationships by providing subject‑matter expertise throughout the sales and delivery lifecycle. Key activities include:

• A home for SMEs and thought leaders—deep technical, client‑facing resources at the front of Microsoft technologies, promoting best practices.
• Driving advanced certification and technical eminence for SMEs, leveraging experience across Accenture, Avanade, Microsoft, and other partners.
• Providing clear technical career pathways and opportunities to cross‑skill across solution areas and practices (industry, LOB, technical).
• Aligning with Solution Evolution & Asset Towers to harmonize with solution and practice roadmaps and bring the best of the ICOE to engagements.
• Supporting Solutioning & Shared Services Towers with deep technical skills to differentiate client experience in pre‑sales and delivery.
• Supporting solution areas, practices, LOBs, and play squads as needed, acting as the conduit between ICOE towers to leverage assets and collateral.

What You’ll Do

• Boost sales globally, with a focus on your region.
• Support Power Platform adoption across the region.
• Collaborate with Microsoft Product teams in Redmond to drive innovation.
• Align with client solutions teams and cross‑practice initiatives to promote, support, and evangelise Power Platform and its roadmap, ensuring timely Microsoft support.

Qualifications

As a Power Platform SME at Avanade, you will support sales, solutioning, and delivery for European regions. You should be located in a European time zone, and be able to support governance, digital modernization, Power Platform activation projects, including Copilot Studio and optionally intelligent automation efforts.

Required

• Drive Client Impact.
• Advance our Solutions and LOBs.
• Support Practice Development.

Skills and Experience

• 5+ years in Power Platform consulting within a large enterprise.
• Solid understanding of Power Platform operations and culture at ATC‑I or Offshore centres.
• Alignment of team goals, skills and priorities.
• Deep knowledge of Power Platform offerings.
• Ability to engage C‑level clients and stakeholders and leverage existing relationships.
• Deep understanding of Delivery Methodologies.

About You

• Effective, compelling communicator, experienced managing C‑level stakeholders.
• Strong presentation and recommendation skills.
• Passionate about trends and technical/industry thought leadership.
• Proven leader with influencing and negotiation capabilities.
• Preferred Microsoft Global Black Belt.
• Experience with AI in this field is a benefit.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work within Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years) with development and training, including at least 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications.
• Real‑time access to technical and skilled resources globally.
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage growth.
• Engaged and supportive coworkers.

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