Microsoft Technology Account Lead - West Canada

*This role can be based in any Western Canada city including major metropolitan areas like Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Winnipeg.

At Avanade, the Microsoft Technology Account Lead (MTAL) is a senior client leadership role responsible for driving growth, shaping opportunities, and delivering client business outcomes across a portfolio of strategic accounts.

As a Senior Manager MTAL, you will operate at the intersection of sales, solutioning, and delivery, leading conversations with senior client stakeholders to define where and why Microsoft technology can unlock business value. You will act as a trusted advisor and orchestrator—aligning teams, shaping solutions, and ensuring successful outcomes for our clients.

This role is a key part of our client leadership model, with a primary focus on ow...

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Qualifications

Experience

Progressive experience in client leadership, sales, consulting, or delivery leadership roles

Demonstrated success working with enterprise clients and driving account growth

Experience shaping and delivering complex Microsoft or cloud-based programs

Robust executive presence and stakeholder management skills

Ability to connect business strategy with technology solutions

Proven ability to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams

Commercial mindset with experience in pipeline creation and deal shaping

Technical & Industry Expertise

Strong understanding of Microsoft technologies and cloud platforms

Ability to position Mi...

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Additional Information

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

Avanade is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

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!

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Our talented Data & AI Practice is made up of globally recognized experts - and there’s room for more analytical and ambitious data professionals. If you’re passionate about helping clients make better data-driven decisions to tackle their most complex business issues, let’s talk. Take your skills to a new level and launch a career where you can truly do what matters.

As an AI Engineer within our Data & AI Practice, you’ll leverage a client-centric approach to translate our client’s business strategy into solutions and services that lead to successful, impactful outcomes.You’ll engage in solutioning and support on the most strategic opportunities, intervene in high-risk complex deliveries, and contribute toshape the strategic direction around data architecture.Together we do what matters.

Key Responsibilities





As an AI Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML solutions that address real-world business challenges.

Build, train, and optimize machine learning models, including supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning approaches.

Implement and maintain data pipelines, ensuring data quality and accessibility for model development and production.

Work with cloud platforms (such as Azure, AWS, or GCP) to operationalize AI solutions, leveraging services like Azure ML, Cognitive Services, or their equivalents.

Participate in code reviews, contribute to technical documentation, and support the integration of AI models into production systems.

Stay current with the latest AI/ML research, tools, and best practices, and proactively share knowledge with the team.

Troubleshoot and resolve issues in model performance, data quality, and deployment pipelines.

Communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additionally, you’ll also be comfortable in working on application development projects for our client who is a reputable business operating within the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sanitary industry sector.

You are a seasoned cloud technologist and trusted advisor with deep expertise in Azure and DevOps practices. You are comfortable leading technical teams while engaging senior business stakeholders and executives. You bring strong consulting, communication, and leadership skills, and are adept at shaping technology strategy, defining architecture, and guiding clients through complex cloud transformation initiatives.

Our Managers lead the design and delivery of sustainable cloud and DevOps solutions, working closely with clients, architects, and delivery teams to maximise the value of Microsoft Azure. You will be responsible for shaping solution direction, providing architectural leadership, and ensuring delivery excellence across engagements.

You will operate across the full lifecycle — from pre-sales and solution shaping through architecture, implementation oversight, and operational transition — while mentoring consultants and analysts and driving best practice adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and governance of DevOps CI/CD strategies and enterprise delivery pipelines

Architect and oversee implementation of Azure cloud solutions aligned to client business and technology strategies

Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and DevOps practices across Azure environments

Provide technical leadership across project teams from requirements through architecture, delivery oversight, and operational handover

Design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure architectures for modern workloads

Lead technical assessments and cloud adoption strategies for customers moving to Azure

Conduct architectural and technical reviews to ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and business objectives

Mentor and guide analysts and consultants in delivery and capability development

Contribute to pre-sales activities including solution shaping, estimations, proposals, and client presentations

Avanade’s Legacy Modernization Service Hub prides itself on over 25 years in providing fast and flexible legacy transformations for large customers.



Based in our Coevorden office in The Netherlands, we are a team of highly skilled and experienced IT professionals dedicated to Legacy Transformation. We build the technology to automatically convert large enterprise IT systems from old technology to modern technology and bring these IT systems into the Cloud. We encourage hybrid working schedules. With collaborative days but also focus days, either at your home or facilitated at any Avanade or Accenture office.

What you’ll do:

- Design and develop high-performance, security-focused, and robust software componentsand API's
- Integrate with other backend systems
- Have a solid understanding of agile/scrum software development teams and processes
- Contribute actively to the design, coding, integration, testing and deployment of high-quality deliverables.
- Conduct code reviews and suggest areas for refactoring and improvement
- Have a keen eye for identifying improvement opportunities, and the skill to get buy-in and ensure implementation

S ills and experiences:

- Core expertise: .Net specialist. Version: .Net 8 (Core)
- Harnessing modern development and DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization, automated testing.
- 5+ years of experience with .Net development and design
- Have programming experience with C#, Typescript and PowerShell
- Have experience with MS Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Blazor, and NuGet
- Have experience with ADO.NET, and (software for) relational databases;
- Having experience with Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes is a benefit.
- It would be a plus if you also have experience with:
- Linux environments
- Java development.
- with mainframe languages like COBOL, Natural, XGEN
- with mainframe databases like DB2, IMS, ADABAS
- working with global teams on projects.
- working with offshore teams to facilitate project work

Unlock the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilotand agentsas a visionary architect, transforming challenges into cutting-edge solutions. Embrace continuous learning and collaborate with global teams to shape the future of technology-driven excellence. Join us at Avanade, where creativity, innovation, and career growth thrive.

Key Responsibilities:

Helping clients realize meaningful business growth through workplace transformation through Copilot and agents, you will work with account teams to shape, sell and coordinate the delivery of propositions that address client challenges

Develop pragmatic, deliverable and sustainable Copilot solutions and roadmaps that allows clients to address their business needs and leverage the best value out of their Microsoft investments.

Contribute to the development and evolution of future focused workplace and organization transformation propositions and solutions.

Support the selling and implementation of Copilot propositions in response to market demand and digital trends.

Assist senior team members with sales efforts including development of client proposals and pitch mechanics.

Delivering sales presentations to clients and responding to RFPs.

Use experience of client facing engagements to build a positive project relationship, run workshops and lead clients to success.

Design and develop Power Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, Teams Toolkit Agents to meet client requirements.

Lead a team of experts to work together to drive success in delivering solutions.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams under challenging circumstances to deliver high-quality solutions.

Translate business requirements into technical solutions using Microsoft 365 products.

Share practices for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and extensibility knowledge with global Avanade team members.

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📌 Microsoft Technology Account Lead - West Canada (Vancouver)
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