Managed Services Solutions Architect

Come join us

Skills and experiences
- Requires individuals who have led or participate in service delivery for at least 2 years, and/or have at least 2 years of developing proposals.
- At least 6 years of overall consulting delivery and sales experience.
- Have knowledge of Managed Services service and delivery models, including global and distributed delivery models
- Solution planning and deal shaping experience. Able to create compelling value proposition and leverage available assets and capabilities to craft the solution
- Comfortable working with estimating, costing and working with Finance and Sales Leads on pricing models. Demonstrates strong analytical skills, ability to analyze customer provided data
- Demonstrates a structured and considered approach to written and oral communication. Able to communicate potentially complex solutions to less technical people
- Proven ability to work within a team, contributing to the success of the team while making a personal contribution.
- Knowledge of ITIL.

About you
- Customer Focus
- Embracing Change
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Realizing Results the Avanade Way
- Technical Passion
- Interpersonal Awareness
- Sales/consultative selling acumen
- Strong financial and analytical skills
- Passion about your customers

What you'll do

The Managed Services Solution Architect will be accountable for developing Managed Services solutions, for specified new and existing customers within the region. This will entail discharging a wide range of responsibilities, including:

- End-to-end shaping of Managed Services deals
- Work within a new business team to interpret customer defined or implied requirements against Avanade solution templates and delivery capabilities
- Engage with customer stakeholders and other knowledgeable resources to validate service requirements, explore solution options and identify service integration requirements
- Work with Avanade delivery centers, both in Spain and offshore, to realize service estimates in accordance with the Avanade Solutioning guidelines
- Identify all service costs and populating cost models accurately to ensure a full visibility of costs related to establishing and delivering the service over the contract term
- Create and document a Solution Plan and support an internal sign-off of costs and risks
- Identify and mitigate solution risks.
- Support the development of pricing and commercial strategies and commercial dialogue with customers
- Development of proposals and participate in presenting proposals and solutions to customers

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade- Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
- Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
- Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growthEngaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in youFind out more about some of our benefits
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A great place to work
- 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 communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to 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
- We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our 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