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Description

At Avanade, business and technology consulting isn't just your career?it's your passion. And that means more than just working with new innovations. It means using technology to solve business problems in ways that make a real difference to you and your customers.

At Avanade, we:
- Are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals.
- Thrive on open dialogue and debate.
- We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- Are committed to growth - as an organization and as individuals.
- Join Avanade and become a part of a superior, cutting edge consulting organization helping build reliable, scalable enterprise solutions for some of the world's best organizations.

Additional information can be found at http://www.avanade.com/.

Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the continued growth of our business by supporting various network environments for our private cloud based solutions
- Team management of private cloud network infrastructure based on Cisco and F5 products. Includes WAN/LAN management, routing and switching, as well as security infrastructure management
- Participate in scheduled network on-call support rotation for providing 24/7 tier-2 on-call support
- Provide troubleshooting and resolution of local and remote network incidents involving existing and newly deployed solutions
- Maintain network environment documentation and procedures

Qualifications

Qualifications: - CCNA certification required; BIG-IP Administrator/Specialist and/or CCNP preferred
- 4+ years of Cisco network engineering experience with extensive knowledge of QoS, DNS/DHCP, IPSec, TCP/IP and Routing protocols
- Strong understanding of Cisco routing and switching platforms including both IOS and NX-OS
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Security solutions
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting F5 load balancing solutions
- Experience using diagnostic & management tools such as Solarwinds and Wireshark
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Flexible schedule with availability for afterhours work/maintenance
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Ability to lift and carry network hardware
- Strong team oriented, collaborative values - proven ability to work with team members and peers
- Track record of establishing and maintaining strong working rapport with customers, and vendors in a dynamic environment

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Additional Area, Region or Service Line specific requirements:

Primary Location:United States-North Carolina-Charlotte
Travel:Yes, 10 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Avanade Managed Services
Job: Systems Engineer
Capability Group: Not Applicable

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose

The Consultant, Compensation, supports the design and administration of Avanade's global compensation programs, provides program analysis and makes recommendations or improvements to programs based on these results. Areas of responsibility may include: Broad-based Compensation, Sales Compensation and Global Mobility and Relocation.

Key Responsibilities
- Manage global mobility programs, which may include: policy design and implementation, vendor management, relocation case management, program administration
- Manage or support sales compensation administration and payment process
- Participate in data submission of salary surveys
- Review and analyze market data, salary ranges and job leveling
- Model complex compensation plans, and what if scenarios
- Assist with compiling, preparing and presenting compensation data for budget purposes and leadership team decisions
- Support short term incentive and long term incentive program design and administration
- Keep appraised of global compensation trends and regulations to ensure market competitiveness and company compliance
- Other global project work may include compensation related analysis, review and recommendations to support activities such as mergers and acquisitions and geographic expansion
- Develop/maintain/document procedures to streamline processes and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
- May assist in the administration of Avanade’s legacy stock option program
- Other compensation and global mobility duties as assigned.

Scope of Work
- Autonomy and Decision Making: Operates independently within defined guidelines, but with supervisor guidance available; Makes a variety of decisions, some complex in nature, affecting their own and others' work
- Daily Work: Contributes to defining goals and policies for their area of work and is responsible for achieving defined targets; Supports planning activities within their function

Delivers in the following focus areas: - Base Salary planning and management (Compensation team)
- Short Term Incentives planning and management (Compensation team)
- Long-Term Incentives planning and management (Compensation team)
- Global mobility program management (Compensation team)
- Compensation administration and program management (Compensation team)
- Impact & Contribution to Business: Works independently to achieve objectives and deliver results that impact the success of the whole team; Peer reviews the work of others; Collaborates across teams and departments
- Responsible for own performance - minimal supervision required

Manages own time and organizes own workload on a daily and weekly basis

Qualifications

Years of Experience
- 5+ years of experience

Management Experience

Education
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or equivalent experience required

Other Skills/Knowledge
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
- Ability to adapt, be flexible, deal with ambiguity
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with management
- MS Office expertise, including strong Excel skills

Preferred Requirements
- Strong financial analysis skills
- 2+ years of experience in compensation program administration
- Experience in technical consulting services organization or high tech organization

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Washington-Seattle
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Compensation
Capability Group: HR - Compensation

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 17,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose

The Systems Engineer assists in the delivery of and support for solutions based on the latest Microsoft technologies. The Systems Engineer is responsible for the design and build of environments as well as preparing and managing the details of transitioning new and changed IT systems to the production environment.

Marshaling new and changed IT systems through the various stages of delivery and ensuring that the correct level of controls and governance are in place so that operability goals are met at each stage of the delivery process is a key function of this roll. This role is also responsible for Tier 3 support of IT Systems.

The Systems Engineering role is embedded in delivery teams and is focused on building the infrastructure necessary for the operability and supportability of IT systems. They also fulfill the role of release management ensuring that operations is prepared to respond to and resolve any incidents as quickly and accurately as possible.

Key Responsibilities

You will work with the EA delivery teams to deliver, review and validate in the areas of systems analysis, systems design, systems development, testing and implementation, advocating for operations during each phase of delivery.

Specifically responsible for:
Systems Analysis
-Define, analyze and influence detailed technical and non-functional operational requirements of new or existing applications in order to meet customer short, medium, and long term needs.
- Identify, understand and influence the preferred design options and processes that meet
- operational needs
- Assist with estimates for compute, network (WAN/Internet) and storage resources for production, test and integration environments.
- Provide effort based project estimates for self and others as necessary

Systems Design
-Assist in the design of automated deployment solutions for MS applications and systems
- Analyze infrastructure designs against stated business, non-functional and operational
- requirements. Influence designs as necessary. Review test approach and prioritized tests
- which will validate requirements.
- Design and plan infrastructure and monitoring and alerting solutions to meet operational goals
- Document and communicate issues with requirements and design documentation
- Validate design of new infrastructure from the operations perspective

Systems Development
-Assist with development and documentation of deployment logistics
- Assist with implementation of automated deployment solutions for MS applications and systems
- Support test environment(s) including hardware related issues
- Support the implementation of the test plan - support performance testing goals.
- Participate in triage meetings
- Implement and test monitoring solutions. Tune as necessary
- Assist in creation of Infrastructure Build and Operations Manuals
- Provides technical support for production infrastructure solutions and tools to help Tier 1 and Tier 2 support teams
- Provide training, mentoring, and support cross team and intra-team collaboration

Implementation
-Deploy the production infrastructure
- Transition of infrastructure to run team
- Transfer knowledge to operations
- Define, document and manage standards. Communicating ways implementation processes could be improved

Qualifications

Years of Experience
-4-5 yrs experience working in a medium to large IT environment

Education
-Undergraduate degree preferred

Other Skills/Knowledge
-Microsoft platform Skills
- Experience developing technical requirements based on business imperatives
- Strong customer service skills
- Detail oriented
- Quick learner
- Full lifecycle experience developing large scale, scalable applications
- 2-3 years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
-SharePoint (2007/2010/2013)
- IIS

Microsoft SQL 1-2 years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
-SCOM
- Security
- Backup technology
- Virtualization
- Automation (PowerShell preferred)

Required Certifications
-Working towards MCITP EA or MCITP SharePoint

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States
Other Locations: United States-Washington-Seattle
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Software Engineering
Capability Group: IT - Software Engineering (ITS)

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade's services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with 10,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose:
The Systems Engineer assists in the delivery of and support for solutions based on the latest Microsoft technologies. The Systems Engineer is responsible for the design and build of environments as well as preparing and managing the details of transitioning new and changed IT systems to the production environment.

Marshaling new and changed IT systems through the various stages of delivery and ensuring that the correct level of controls and governance are in place so that operability goals are met at each stage of the delivery process is a key function of this roll. This role is also responsible for Tier 3 support of IT Systems.

The Systems Engineering role is embedded in delivery teams and is focused on building the infrastructure necessary for the operability and supportability of IT systems. They also fulfill the role of release management ensuring that operations is prepared to respond to and resolve any incidents as quickly and accurately as possible.

Key Responsibilities

You will work with the EA delivery teams to deliver, review and validate in the areas of systems analysis, systems design, systems development, testing and implementation, advocating for operations during each phase of delivery.

Specifically responsible for:

Systems Analysis
-Define, analyze and influence detailed technical and non-functional operational requirements of new or existing applications in order to meet customer short, medium, and long term needs.
- Identify, understand and influence the preferred design options and processes that meet
- operational needs
- Assist with estimates for compute, network (WAN/Internet) and storage resources for production, test and integration environments.
- Provide effort based project estimates for self and others as necessary

Systems Design
-Assist in the design of automated deployment solutions for MS applications and systems
- Analyze infrastructure designs against stated business, non-functional and operational requirements. Influence designs as necessary. Review test approach and prioritized tests which will validate requirements.
- Design and plan infrastructure and monitoring and alerting solutions to meet operational goals
- Document and communicate issues with requirements and design documentation
- Validate design of new infrastructure from the operations perspective

Systems Development
-Assist with development and documentation of deployment logistics
- Assist with implementation of automated deployment solutions for MS applications and
- systems
- Support test environment(s) including hardware related issues
- Support the implementation of the test plan - support performance testing goals.
- Participate in triage meetings
- Implement and test monitoring solutions. Tune as necessary
- Assist in creation of Infrastructure Build and Operations Manuals
- Provides technical support for production infrastructure solutions and tools to help Tier 1 and Tier 2 support teams
- Provide training, mentoring, and support cross team and intra-team collaboration

Implementation
-Deploy the production infrastructure
- Transition of infrastructure to run team
- Transfer knowledge to operations
- Define, document and manage standards. Communicating ways implementation processes could be improved

Qualifications

Years of Experience
-4-5 yrs experience working in a medium to large IT environment

Management Experience
-None

Education
-Undergraduate degree preferred

Other Skills/Knowledge
-Microsoft platform Skills
- Experience developing technical requirements based on business imperatives
- Strong customer service skills
- Detail oriented
- Quick learner
- Full lifecycle experience developing large scale, scalable applications

2-3 years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
-SharePoint (2007/2010/2013)
- IIS
- Microsoft SQL

1-2 years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
-SCOM
- Security
- Backup technology
- Virtualization
- Automation (PowerShell preferred)

Required Certifications
-Working towards MCITP EA or MCITP SharePoint

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Software Engineering
Capability Group: IT - Software Engineering (ITS)

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Description

Do you want to work with the best developers in Chicago? Do you have a solid background working as a .NET Developer? Do you enjoy working with customers and creating solutions? If so, this may be the opportunity for you!

Avanade, the #1 Microsoft Gold Partner, is hiring to support our explosive growth in 2013! We are looking for a .NET Developer to become an integral member of our team in Chicago.

Avanade is a global IT consultancy (and the joint venture of Microsoft & Accenture) dedicated to using the Microsoft platform to help enterprises achieve profitable growth. Through proven solutions that extend Microsoft products, Avanade helps enterprises increase revenue, reduce costs, and reinvest in innovation to gain competitive advantage. Formed in April 2000, Avanade now has over 60 locations, offices in 20 countries, and nearly 17,000 professionals.
With Accenture, we have 24 earned Microsoft Gold competencies - 7 more than our nearest competitor! http://rcpmag.com/articles/2012/07/01/microsofts-most-competent-partners.aspx

Avanade Technology Solutions (ATS) is a geographically-based workforce within Avanade that provides Application Development, Application Maintenance, and Infrastructure Operations services to a variety of clients utilizing the broad spectrum of Microsoft-based technologies and tools. ATS resources may work in a development center-based model or at our client's locations. In either scenario, ATS has created a shared culture with a proven high level of employee satisfaction. Our ATS team in Chicago is a collaborative team with many professional and social events. Gain experience working on projects that provide exposure to new technologies, functional areas, and leadership.

Why Avanade?

A career with Avanade offers you a unique opportunity to help our customers on leading-edge, enterprise projects while growing your skills and progressing your career. Avanade offers PAID training and our employees hold the highest concentration of elite certifications in the industry. Additionally, our employees enjoy access to new Microsoft technologies well before they're released to the public. If you are looking to advance your career and continue learning in the evolving world of technology, Avanade is the place for you!

As a .NET Developer, your focus will be on designing, developing and testing mission critical enterprise solutions and other custom application development projects using the .NET Framework, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

You will need excellent communication skills and hands-on .NET development experience to work with Avanade’s Fortune 500 customers, to complete the software development lifecycle and deliver exceptional solutions.

Qualified candidates should possess: - 3-5 years’ hands-on experience as a programmer
- Enterprise scale software development experience
- Deep Microsoft platform expertise

- Experience creating Design Documentation

- Strong communication and customer service skills
- Full software development lifecycle experience on enterprise-class, scalable applications
- Proven ability to understand a customer's needs

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field

- 2+ years of demonstrated proficiency in the following:
o .NET Framework
o C# or VB.NET
o ASP.NET
o SQL Server

Preferred experience includes:

o SharePoint

o WCF

o WPF

o Silverlight
o Web services development

Visit our website at http://www.avanade.com/ and click on Careers. Read about our history, services, and customer results. If this inspires you to be part of the Avanade team, click Join our Talent Community to fill out our easy application. We look forward to hearing from you!

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Illinois-Chicago
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- AGDN - ATS
Job: .NET
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application & Integration

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose

This is a key training role at Avanade, based in the Global Learning and Development group. As the Application Development Service Line Instructor, you will help analyze, design, develop, and teach courses on cutting-edge Avanade solutions using Microsoft technologies for over 8,000 Solution Developers worldwide. You will be responsible for working with the company's top Subject Matter Experts in order to guide and develop the best technical training possible, including self-study, virtual and in-person formats. There will be opportunities to teach up to 6x/year in Avanade's global offices. This position reports to the Application Development Service Line Training Manager.

Key Responsibilities
-Help conduct annual Curriculum Needs Analysis (CNA) and quarterly updates by partnering with Avanade's senior technologists and solution teams
- Research, design, develop and deliver 4 - 8 courses (12hrs per) per year on beta technologies and Avanade solutions under tight deadlines, and manage to incremental technology changes; including: - Developing a course scope
- Identifying SMEs
- Researching and learning new technologies
- Writing the course
- Developing labs
- Conducting a beta teach
- Recording the course into a self-study format
- Proofing and post-mortems
- Providing tier 2 and backup instructor support as needed
-Serve as the key point of contact and instructor for a bootcamp-style training program for new hires, which includes:
- Managing operational details, scheduling and communications
- Supporting self-study curriculum and lab work
- Delivering two weeks of in-person training in a scenario-based format, which includes role playing, presentations on technical and consulting topics, technical support, and formal student evaluations
-Assist with the development of additional courses being built by key vendors
- Deliver key Microsoft training on Solution Developer topics
- Work with the technical training project manager to ensure timely delivery of courses
- Coach/tech-mentor the instructor support personnel that are providing eMentoring to global student base taking the courses you and vendors have developed
- Provide back-up to the instructor support personnel, including:
- Helping answer advanced technical questions
- Back-up for vacations/sick time for instructor support staff, including: monitoring student questions via IM, email, and phone, providing 1:1 eMentoring/tutoring, trouble-shooting of labs
-Maintain course quality / course evaluation scores in all SD courses of 4.3 in a 1 - 5 scale in all areas of evaluation, including:
- Course content
- Recording instructor
- Supporting instructor
- Overall learning experience
- Impact to skills

Contribute ideas and foster teamwork within the larger GLD Services group.

Scope of Work
-Autonomy and Decision Making: Operates independently within defined guidelines, but with supervisor guidance available; Makes a variety of decisions, some complex in nature, affecting their own and others' work
- Daily Work: Contributes to defining goals and policies for their area of work and is responsible for achieving defined targets; Supports planning activities within their function
- Impact & Contribution to Business: Works independently to achieve objectives and deliver results that impact the success of the whole team; Peer reviews the work of others; Collaborates across teams and departments. Responsible for own performance – minimal supervision required
- Manages own time and organizes own workload on a daily and weekly basis

Qualifications

Years of Experience

Either:
-3+ years of experience as a technical consultant in a global company with experience of application development topics such Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET/MVC, HTML/CSS, Entity Framework, SQL Server, and Windows 8.

Or
-3+ years of experience as a course developer/trainer on broader application development topics such Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET/MVC, HTML/CSS, Entity Framework, SQL Server, and Windows 8. Exposure to both in-person and virtual training, ideally in a global consulting company or a global technology company.

Management Experience
-People management not required. Position requires experience of managing programs of work.

Education
-BA or BS degree is required. Ideally, a Master’s degree in a subject of direct relevance to the position.

Other Skills/Knowledge

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:
-Excellent organizational, project management and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, cross-group collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Strong process design and program implementation skills
- Strong customer focus and business acumen
- Strong action orientation and drive for results (execution and implementation)
- Must be able to function independently and handle ambiguity

MINIMUM PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
-In-depth knowledge of Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET/MVC, HTML/CSS, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Windows 8
- Familiar with SharePoint 2010/2013
- Desire to teach
- Technical consulting or worked within a consulting company
- Excellent written and English language skills
- Demonstrated customer service, communication and interpersonal skills
- MCPD-EA certification or progress towards

PREFERRED PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
-Instructional design and/or teaching experience
- Microsoft Office suite, technical background on Microsoft technologies/trends
- Relevant industry knowledge

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a passion for technology as a driver of business results. You must have strong business acumen and use it to identify key issues for the business and be able to apply your technical knowledge to drive solutions. You will need to be able to deal with ambiguity and you should look to ensure that your extended team is growing professionally.

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global Service Lines
Job: Learning & Training
Capability Group: HR - GLD Learning

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose

The Manager/Lead, Talent Management is responsible for the development, on-going evolution, maintenance and process management of Avanade’s career management framework, tools and processes. This position develops and delivers the career model resources required to ensure employees have the resources they need to advance their careers and execute on Avanade' strategic agenda.

Key Responsibilities
-Develop a strong partnership with Global, Area, and Regional HR teams to ensure effective adoption of organizational change
- Analyze differing local needs and align with global processes to effectively support those needs
- Analyze and recommend improvements to processes, practices and policies to ensure leading edge Talent Management practices are in use
- Conduct overview sessions to introduce employees to career options, tools, and opportunities
- Advise and support HR Partners on talent management related issues
- Interact with executive management as a regular part of the needs analysis, development, and implementation of programs
- Support recruiting, onboarding, succession planning, and other Talent Management needs
- Develop processes, tools, collaterals, communications and change plans to execute Talent Management projects
- Manage local and remote resources effectively to deliver excellent results on schedule
- Coordinate and manage related projects as assigned

Qualifications

Years of Experience
-6+ years related experience in a combination of competency modeling, career management, employee learning, performance management and organizational development
- 4+ years of proven record of large project management/ implementations
- 2+ years of experience working in a large global organization; Experience in Professional Services and/or a complex multi-tiered technology solutions environment
- Demonstrated experience working with people from multiple cultures

Management Experience
-Experience managing remote team members preferred

Education
-BS or BA degree Human Resources, Organization Development, Psychology, Social Sciences or related area

Other Skills/Knowledge
-Thorough understanding of organizational development and talent management issues
- Excellent written and verbal English language skills
- A proven track record of organizing, tracking and delivering projects ensuring high quality with minimal guidance
- Demonstrated customer focus, communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong client focus and outstanding consulting skills
- Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills
- Fast and agile learner across technical and functional subject areas
- Demonstrated ability to influence people at all levels of the organization
- Strong action and results orientation
- Must be able to function independently and handle ambiguity
- Passion for HR as a driver of business results.

Position-specific requirements include:
Career Modeling
-Act as primary subject matter expert for Avanade’s career model, including approach, tools, processes, and website
- Proven experience developing and implementing competency models, leveling guidelines, career paths, and other materials related to career development
- Understand the career development / career management needs of our employees by skills family from the perspective of business stakeholders, employees and HR
- Lead analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of scalable, global talent management programs
- Develop, maintain and implement Skill Family specific Career Models, including competency models and leveling guidelines
- Oversee Avanade's career site, responsible for knowledge and content management on the site
- Develop, maintain and implement lateral career paths for employees

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Washington-Seattle
Travel:Yes, 10 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Organizational Development
Capability Group: GLD - Organization Development

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Description

TITLE: Customer Marketing Manager (CMM
Reports thru: Marketing VP’s
LOCATION- NY Metro only
AG- 4 account groups in East Operating Unit
Job # 18920
Presented By: Laura Anderson East OU Sales Recruiting

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade's services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and near-shore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk.

Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with over 12,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

JOB SUMMARY:
The Customer Marketing Manager (CMM) will work with business development in managing the sourcing of new customers and expanding current customer relationships through the development of marketing programs, such as awareness, relationship building, reference building and demand generation marketing activities. This position is also responsible for the development and execution of a current customer and channel marketing strategy to support local business development with increased sales volume, retention and account expansion.

Experience in all facets of marketing including online, direct mail, telemarketing, events and web-based, with an ability to incorporate appropriate elements of national marketing programs in assigned geography to achieve desired outcome for the Account Groups.

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Field and Strategic Account Marketing, this position will work with the Operating Unit executives, business development, and the Microsoft and Accenture alliance marketing teams to develop and execute integrated, regional marketing and communication programs.

CMM OBJECTIVES:

The Customer Marketing Manager (CMM) will implement local market awareness, account-based marketing and customer marketing/loyalty programs while integrating national marketing campaign activities into their Account Group marketing plans to support North America’s revenue and profit objectives through new business development and expansion of existing accounts.

The Customer Marketing Manager would ensure alignment of all Marketing activities to geographic Sales objectives, including those executed by other national and corporate Marketing functions.

Primary Responsibilities:

Regional Marketing
-Work with Account Group (AG) Sales Managers and execs to assess AG target accounts, sales objectives, solution and service line priorities to:
- Align and execute Global and Area campaigns to drive maximum impact on pipeline
- Recommend, develop and execute localized campaigns to ‘fill the gaps’ in pipeline needs
-Coordinate execution of PR/AR specific to the Account Groups in conjunction with North America PR/AR lead
- Oversee customer specific programs (events, campaigns, social media/social business) for long term relationship building and cross-selling
- Support customer evidence process by working with business development to identify new wins, public references, and case studies. Provide guidance and direction to support local programs – driving account research, telemarketing, events or other lead generation initiatives
- Manage the OU and Account Group Marketing budget, spend and partner co-funding to maximize campaign ROI

Alliance Marketing
-Provide Alliance Marketing co-ordination and management in to ensure optimum inclusion in Alliance marketing programs and proper use of funds from Accenture and Microsoft specific to the East OU
- Develop and maintain relationships with alliance marketing counterparts in local geographies

Management
-Manage marketing budget and optimize co-operative funding available from Microsoft and Accenture
- Participate in North America (NA) team calls
- Adhere to NA and Global Marketing policies and procedures related, but not limited to Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Brand.
- Tracking of marketing effectiveness – lead tracking and impact of marketing campaigns on East OU pipeline contribution & other.

Qualifications

Required Experience & Attributes:
-A highly-motivated individual with an understanding of the consulting services industry and sound business acumen
- Ability to formulate plans and effectively execute against them for results
- Ability to work effectively among various groups of people from executives to technical consultants
- Knowledgeable of the Microsoft enterprise technologies and of Accenture and Microsoft cultures and structures
- The ability to work effectively with Accenture and Microsoft is essential as is the ability to communicate with external audiences.
- This person needs to have a minimum of 5 years experience working in Marketing and/or Communications preferably in the IT Services arena.
- A Marketing and/or Business Degree or equivalent.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS
-Strong communication skills to facilitate interaction with Operating Unit and Account Group leadership teams
- Knowledge of marketing processes and disciplines including database management, direct marketing, telemarketing, event marketing to both IT and Line of Business decision maker
- Knowledge and experience in providing strategic marketing guidance and recommendations for an integrated and impactful marketing mix.
- Ability to interact with all levels of customers and prospective customer organization
- Understanding of and experience supporting a sales organization
- Experience implementing marketing and partner marketing campaigns
- High energy and drive to support sales environment
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Detailed-oriented
- Creative insight in to prospects/customers
- Willingness to undertake travel as required – approximately 30% within the Account Groups
- Word, Excel, PPT, Project & strong understanding of MS enterprise products

EDUCATION AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
-Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related discipline with a minimum of 5 years marketing experience.

Avanade Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-New York-New York City
Travel:Yes, 25 % of the Time |
Job Type: Experienced
Region:- Sales & Marketing - NA
Job: Communications
Capability Group: MC - Marketing

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at http://www.avanade.com/.

Position Purpose:
The service architects play a key role in defining the technical approach to fulfill Avanade Business Intelligence shared service. They advocate a Tightly Integrated/Loosely Coupled approach that strives to appropriately leverage the functionality across multiple platforms where relevant. The Service Architect will be aligned to the Business Intelligence Service with responsibility for its evolution as a capability through defined enhancements and continuous improvement of operations and performance refactoring. They will also devote time to innovative approaches to the systems based on trends as well as follow technology and product trends in order to stay close to the leading edge in our portfolio.

Key Responsibilities
-Responsible for aligning application design approaches to Avanade’s architecture blueprint.
- Provide technical vision and leadership within the Business Intelligence Service.
- Vision and direction to introduce innovative uses of technology into the project workstreams
- Scope of Work
- Autonomy and Decision Making: Operates with autonomy and latitude in meeting Avanade/stakeholder objectives
- Owns the technology approach and design for the Business Intelligence Service.
- Daily Work: Customer sponsorship: Sponsors customer relationship. Determines strategic technology planning and business case development. Determines portfolio transformation and ensures alignment with partners and industry. Sets annual plan and growth targets for assigned solution portfolio.
- Provides Strategic Direction in the Identification, Incubation, Development and Expanding/Maturation focus areas.
- Impact & Contribution to Business: Owns assigned solution including messaging and marketing content, and sales and delivery capability. Ensures alignment of offerings with parents, alliances and industries. Plans, manages, monitors and evaluates multiple functions’ ongoing performance and the quality of its outputs and services. Accountable for the effective performance of multiple solutions including understanding rhythms of business to best support capability and delivery needs.
- Provides motivational leadership for business area, clearly communicating vision and values.
- Identifies, coaches and develops key talent across the business area. Develops managers and senior individual contributors, and supports development of business area’s succession plans. Mentors cross functional teams working on solution development projects that impact business function.

Qualifications

Skills/ Knowledge/ Experience Required :

Years of Experience
-6 + years in the computer industry with significant experience in application architecture

Management Experience
-Management of an architecture team delivering business value through application solutions.

Education
-B.S. in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field (preferred)

Other Skills/Knowledge
-Knowledge of TOGAF and ITIL are a plus
- Familiarity with Microsoft products and technologies is preferred specifically the SQL and SharePoint Business Intelligence technology stack
- Enterprise Data Modelling.

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Washington-Seattle
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Service Mgmt
Capability Group: ITS - Service Management

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Description

Why are Sitecore Developers and Architects like you wanting to join Avanade, the #1 Microsoft Gold partner? ($1B IT consultancy owned by Microsoft & Accenture)

Ready to take on the next level of IT solution challenges with top enterprise customers? Want a place to turbocharge the growth of your Microsoft .NET platform skills? Avanade has the most earned Gold competencies of any MS partner. Work with the most Microsoft MVPs per capita of any large IT solutions firm, get US$15K of annual paid training support, and more.

Qualifications

At Avanade, we:

- are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.
- have earned more Microsoft Gold competencies than any other partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Avanade-and-Accenture-earn-most-Microsoft-gold-competencies-page.aspx)
- have received more Partner of the Year Awards in 2011 than any other Microsoft partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Microsoft-Recognizes-Accenture-and-Avanade-with-Four-2011-Partner-of-the-Year-Awards-Page.aspx)

As a senior Solution Sitecore Developer/Architect consultant, your focus will be on deep technical roles and leading teams in development and testing of mission critical enterprise solutions. You will be responsible for the design implementation of custom components and applications using the latest versions of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Sitecore CMS platform, Office and other advanced components of Microsoft technology.

As you grow your career at Avanade you will build management, technical and planning skills. You will improve your abilities to think creatively, design solutions, and interact with customers. You will also hone your technical, management and consulting skills by participating in large projects and benefiting from the vast knowledge of your teammates.
You will: - Interact with teammates and customers to identify problems and solutions in working toward completion of project goal.
- Lead and mentor small to medium sized teams in the creation of customer components and applications
- Develop technical specifications based on functional requirements
- Develop components of the technical solution
- Perform tests according to a given test plan and documents results
- Perform basic support and debugging in test and production environment
- Identify and escalate problems
- Maintain and repair existing applications
- Lead teams and small projects

Minimum Requirements:
- excellent communication skills and have hands-on experience working on component based applications in a distributed environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field
- Demonstrated strong customer service skills
- Demonstrated enterprise project experience
- 3+ years technology consulting
- Focused Microsoft platform Skills
- Full lifecycle experience developing large scale applications
- 4 to 6+ years as a programmer in a large enterprise environment
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
- .NET Framework ASP.NET, Windows Form, C# or VB.NET

-3+ years Sitecore experience

- Experienced in SiteCore customer management system a must

-The Sitecore Architect will lead the Migration Project Plan with experience and expertise in leading a Sitecore Migration.

o Microsoft SQL Server Development
o Application Lifecycle Management
o QA & Testing procedures
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following development methodologies:
o Object Oriented Development
o Component based development
o Patterns
o Design for reuse

Travel:
You must have the ability to travel up to five days a week, up to 80+% of the year to customer locations outside of your home location.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong candidates will additionally possess Microsoft certifications or demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Web Services development using WCF
- Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation development
- SharePoint, BizTalk or Commerce Server development
- Advanced data layer development
- Azure development
- Mobile application development
- Security
- Application integration
- Testing & deployment

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Illinois-Chicago
Travel:Yes, 75 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- United States
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

LOC:USA]]>Mon, 20 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/Chicago-Sitecore-Architect-%28Chicago%29-Job-IL-60290/1761848/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/Chicago-Sitecore-Architect-%28Chicago%29-Job-IL-60290/1761848/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Description

Why are Sitecore Developers and Architects like you wanting to join Avanade, the #1 Microsoft Gold partner? ($1B IT consultancy owned by Microsoft & Accenture)

Ready to take on the next level of IT solution challenges with top enterprise customers? Want a place to turbocharge the growth of your Microsoft .NET platform skills? Avanade has the most earned Gold competencies of any MS partner. Work with the most Microsoft MVPs per capita of any large IT solutions firm, get US$15K of annual paid training support, and more.

Qualifications

At Avanade, we:

- are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.
- have earned more Microsoft Gold competencies than any other partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Avanade-and-Accenture-earn-most-Microsoft-gold-competencies-page.aspx)
- have received more Partner of the Year Awards in 2011 than any other Microsoft partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Microsoft-Recognizes-Accenture-and-Avanade-with-Four-2011-Partner-of-the-Year-Awards-Page.aspx)

As a senior Solution Sitecore Developer/Architect consultant, your focus will be on deep technical roles and leading teams in development and testing of mission critical enterprise solutions. You will be responsible for the design implementation of custom components and applications using the latest versions of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Sitecore CMS platform, Office and other advanced components of Microsoft technology.

As you grow your career at Avanade you will build management, technical and planning skills. You will improve your abilities to think creatively, design solutions, and interact with customers. You will also hone your technical, management and consulting skills by participating in large projects and benefiting from the vast knowledge of your teammates.
You will: - Interact with teammates and customers to identify problems and solutions in working toward completion of project goal.
- Lead and mentor small to medium sized teams in the creation of customer components and applications
- Develop technical specifications based on functional requirements
- Develop components of the technical solution
- Perform tests according to a given test plan and documents results
- Perform basic support and debugging in test and production environment
- Identify and escalate problems
- Maintain and repair existing applications
- Lead teams and small projects

Minimum Requirements:
- excellent communication skills and have hands-on experience working on component based applications in a distributed environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field
- Demonstrated strong customer service skills
- Demonstrated enterprise project experience
- 3+ years technology consulting
- Focused Microsoft platform Skills
- Full lifecycle experience developing large scale applications
- 4 to 6+ years as a programmer in a large enterprise environment
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
- .NET Framework ASP.NET, Windows Form, C# or VB.NET

-3+ years Sitecore experience

- Experienced in SiteCore customer management system a must

-The Sitecore Architect will lead the Migration Project Plan with experience and expertise in leading a Sitecore Migration.

o Microsoft SQL Server Development
o Application Lifecycle Management
o QA & Testing procedures
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following development methodologies:
o Object Oriented Development
o Component based development
o Patterns
o Design for reuse

Travel:
You must have the ability to travel up to five days a week, up to 80+% of the year to customer locations outside of your home location.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong candidates will additionally possess Microsoft certifications or demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Web Services development using WCF
- Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation development
- SharePoint, BizTalk or Commerce Server development
- Advanced data layer development
- Azure development
- Mobile application development
- Security
- Application integration
- Testing & deployment

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States
Travel:Yes, 75 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- United States
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

LOC:USA]]>Thu, 02 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/Sitecore-DeveloperArchitect-%28Nationwide%29/2411547/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/Sitecore-DeveloperArchitect-%28Nationwide%29/2411547/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Description

Why are Sitecore Developers and Architects like you wanting to join Avanade, the #1 Microsoft Gold partner? ($1B IT consultancy owned by Microsoft & Accenture)

Ready to take on the next level of IT solution challenges with top enterprise customers? Want a place to turbocharge the growth of your Microsoft .NET platform skills? Avanade has the most earned Gold competencies of any MS partner. Work with the most Microsoft MVPs per capita of any large IT solutions firm, get US$15K of annual paid training support, and more.

Qualifications

At Avanade, we:

- are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.
- have earned more Microsoft Gold competencies than any other partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Avanade-and-Accenture-earn-most-Microsoft-gold-competencies-page.aspx)
- have received more Partner of the Year Awards in 2011 than any other Microsoft partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Microsoft-Recognizes-Accenture-and-Avanade-with-Four-2011-Partner-of-the-Year-Awards-Page.aspx)

As a senior Solution Sitecore Developer/Architect consultant, your focus will be on deep technical roles and leading teams in development and testing of mission critical enterprise solutions. You will be responsible for the design implementation of custom components and applications using the latest versions of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Sitecore CMS platform, Office and other advanced components of Microsoft technology.

As you grow your career at Avanade you will build management, technical and planning skills. You will improve your abilities to think creatively, design solutions, and interact with customers. You will also hone your technical, management and consulting skills by participating in large projects and benefiting from the vast knowledge of your teammates.
You will: - Interact with teammates and customers to identify problems and solutions in working toward completion of project goal.
- Lead and mentor small to medium sized teams in the creation of customer components and applications
- Develop technical specifications based on functional requirements
- Develop components of the technical solution
- Perform tests according to a given test plan and documents results
- Perform basic support and debugging in test and production environment
- Identify and escalate problems
- Maintain and repair existing applications
- Lead teams and small projects

Minimum Requirements:
- excellent communication skills and have hands-on experience working on component based applications in a distributed environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field
- Demonstrated strong customer service skills
- Demonstrated enterprise project experience
- 3+ years technology consulting
- Focused Microsoft platform Skills
- Full lifecycle experience developing large scale applications
- 4 to 6+ years as a programmer in a large enterprise environment
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
- .NET Framework ASP.NET, Windows Form, C# or VB.NET

-3+ years Sitecore experience

- Experienced in SiteCore customer management system a must

-The Sitecore Architect will lead the Migration Project Plan with experience and expertise in leading a Sitecore Migration.

o Microsoft SQL Server Development
o Application Lifecycle Management
o QA & Testing procedures
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following development methodologies:
o Object Oriented Development
o Component based development
o Patterns
o Design for reuse

Travel:
You must have the ability to travel up to five days a week, up to 80+% of the year to customer locations outside of your home location.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong candidates will additionally possess Microsoft certifications or demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Web Services development using WCF
- Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation development
- SharePoint, BizTalk or Commerce Server development
- Advanced data layer development
- Azure development
- Mobile application development
- Security
- Application integration
- Testing & deployment

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-New York-New York City
Travel:Yes, 75 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- United States
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

LOC:USA]]>Sun, 19 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/New-York-City-Sitecore-DeveloperArchitect-%28New-York%29-NY-10001/2442334/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/New-York-City-Sitecore-DeveloperArchitect-%28New-York%29-NY-10001/2442334/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Description

Why are Sitecore Developers and Architects like you wanting to join Avanade, the #1 Microsoft Gold partner? ($1B IT consultancy owned by Microsoft & Accenture)

Ready to take on the next level of IT solution challenges with top enterprise customers? Want a place to turbocharge the growth of your Microsoft .NET platform skills? Avanade has the most earned Gold competencies of any MS partner. Work with the most Microsoft MVPs per capita of any large IT solutions firm, get US$15K of annual paid training support, and more.

Qualifications

At Avanade, we:

- are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.
- have earned more Microsoft Gold competencies than any other partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Avanade-and-Accenture-earn-most-Microsoft-gold-competencies-page.aspx)
- have received more Partner of the Year Awards in 2011 than any other Microsoft partner (www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/Microsoft-Recognizes-Accenture-and-Avanade-with-Four-2011-Partner-of-the-Year-Awards-Page.aspx)

As a senior Solution Sitecore Developer/Architect consultant, your focus will be on deep technical roles and leading teams in development and testing of mission critical enterprise solutions. You will be responsible for the design implementation of custom components and applications using the latest versions of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Sitecore CMS platform, Office and other advanced components of Microsoft technology.

As you grow your career at Avanade you will build management, technical and planning skills. You will improve your abilities to think creatively, design solutions, and interact with customers. You will also hone your technical, management and consulting skills by participating in large projects and benefiting from the vast knowledge of your teammates.
You will: - Interact with teammates and customers to identify problems and solutions in working toward completion of project goal.
- Lead and mentor small to medium sized teams in the creation of customer components and applications
- Develop technical specifications based on functional requirements
- Develop components of the technical solution
- Perform tests according to a given test plan and documents results
- Perform basic support and debugging in test and production environment
- Identify and escalate problems
- Maintain and repair existing applications
- Lead teams and small projects

Minimum Requirements:
- excellent communication skills and have hands-on experience working on component based applications in a distributed environment.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field
- Demonstrated strong customer service skills
- Demonstrated enterprise project experience
- 3+ years technology consulting
- Focused Microsoft platform Skills
- Full lifecycle experience developing large scale applications
- 4 to 6+ years as a programmer in a large enterprise environment
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:
- .NET Framework ASP.NET, Windows Form, C# or VB.NET

-3+ years Sitecore experience

- Experienced in SiteCore customer management system a must

-The Sitecore Architect will lead the Migration Project Plan with experience and expertise in leading a Sitecore Migration.

o Microsoft SQL Server Development
o Application Lifecycle Management
o QA & Testing procedures
- 4+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following development methodologies:
o Object Oriented Development
o Component based development
o Patterns
o Design for reuse

Travel:
You must have the ability to travel up to five days a week, up to 80+% of the year to customer locations outside of your home location.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong candidates will additionally possess Microsoft certifications or demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Web Services development using WCF
- Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation development
- SharePoint, BizTalk or Commerce Server development
- Advanced data layer development
- Azure development
- Mobile application development
- Security
- Application integration
- Testing & deployment

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Texas-Houston
Travel:Yes, 75 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- United States
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

LOC:USA]]>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/Houston-Sitecore-DeveloperArchitect-%28Houston%29-TX-77001/2443677/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://www.avanade-jobs.com/job/Houston-Sitecore-DeveloperArchitect-%28Houston%29-TX-77001/2443677/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS
Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose

This is a key training role at Avanade, based in the Global Learning and Development group. This role would focus on Business Intelligence and Application Development related training.

As the BI Service Line Instructor, you will help analyze, design, develop, and teach courses on cutting-edge Avanade solutions using Microsoft technologies for over 15000 consultants worldwide. You will be responsible for working with the company's top Subject Matter Experts in order to guide and develop the best scenario-based, lab-intensive training possible. This includes managing stakeholder relationships, analyzing field needs and addressing them, developing internal technical training, and teaching emerging technology classes.

This position reports to Group Manager, Technical Training.

Key Responsibilities

Business Intelligence Service Line Management
-Program management and ownership of global BI training space
- Design, develop and build training courses by working with key stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Develop and deliver BI/App Dev focused Rapid Readiness bootcamps
- Assist with the strategic vision and direction of BI training
- Assist in developing roadmaps and skills mapping
- Co-ownership of School of Technology updates, and related templates, intranet sites, workspaces, toolkits to support employees on the app dev and BI solution space
- Keep the existing training courses current by making necessary updates

Emerging Technology Training: -Work closely with the BI and App Dev SL Training Lead in GLD
- Deliver Emerging Technology Series (ETS) VIL training courses such as BI for PMs, BI for BAs, BI for Architects, SQL Server, broader App Dev topics, MCPD and other specialized certification courses as needed

General Support
-Support other GLD technical team projects like Certification Preparation Program, Rapid Readiness bootcamps etc. as needed
- Media @ Avanade management and support

Scope of Work
-Autonomy and Decision Making: Operates independently within defined guidelines, but with supervisor guidance available; Makes a variety of decisions, some complex in nature, affecting their own and others' work
- Daily Work: Contributes to defining goals and policies for their area of work and is responsible for achieving defined targets; Supports planning activities within their function
- Impact & Contribution to Business: Works independently to achieve objectives and deliver results that impact the success of the whole team; Peer reviews the work of others; Collaborates across teams and departments. Responsible for own performance – minimal supervision required
- Manages own time and organizes own workload on a daily and weekly basis
- Accountability and Metrics

Competencies

Core CompetenciesCustomer Focus
-Embracing Change
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Realizing Results the Avanade Way
- Technical Passion
- Interpersonal Awareness

Skill Family Specific Competencies
-Strategic Business Partnership
- Customer Service Excellence
- HR Operational Excellence

Management Competencies ( if applicable)
-People and Team Management

Qualifications

Years of Experience

Either:
-5+ years of experience as a course developer/trainer on broader application development topics such as .NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Architecture and Design. Familiarity in SharePoint, Windows Azure, HTML 5, Silverlight 5.0. with a more recent focus on BI skills is a big plus. Exposure to both in-person and virtual training, ideally in a global consulting company or a global technology company.

Or
-3+ years of experience managing project implementation, ideally in a global consulting company.

Management Experience
-People management not required. Position requires experience of managing programs of work, especially in the area of training and people development.

Education
-BA or BS degree is required. Ideally, a Master’s degree in a subject of direct relevance to the position.

Other Skills/Knowledge

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:
-Excellent organizational, project management and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, cross-group collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Strong process design and program implementation skills
- Strong customer focus and business acumen
- Strong action orientation and drive for results (execution and implementation)
- Must be able to function independently and handle ambiguity

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
-Strong client focus and outstanding consulting skills
- Experience of designing and developing training events (e.g. webcasts or e-learning)
- Strong English-language skills combined with a comfort in delivering engaging training courses through in-person and virtual formats
- Strong professional network which enables benchmarking, research and sharing of best practices
- A demonstrated history of execution in a corporate environment
- Demonstrated history of implementing training programs (or similar)

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a passion for technology as a driver of business results. You must have strong business acumen and use it to identify key issues for the business and be able to apply your technical knowledge to drive solutions. You will need to be able to deal with ambiguity and you should look to ensure that your extended team is growing professionally.

Required Certifications MCPD, focus on BI related technologies is a plus

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States
Travel:Yes, 10 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Learning & Training
Capability Group: HR - GLD Learning

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Description

At Avanade, business and technology consulting isn't just your career?it's your passion. And that means more than just working with new innovations. It means using technology to solve business problems in ways that make a real difference to you and your customers.

At Avanade, we:
- Are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals.
- Thrive on open dialogue and debate.
- We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- Are committed to growth - as an organization and as individuals.
- Join Avanade and become a part of a superior, cutting edge consulting organization helping build reliable, scalable enterprise solutions for some of the world's best organizations.

Additional information can be found at http://www.avanade.com/.

The Manager, Account Leadership/Sales Management, contributes to the definition of the sales strategy and supports its execution in the assigned territory and/or market. The position strives to lead long term growth for a portfolio of high revenue stream accounts for an area or territory. The Manager supports a sales team in leveraging best internal practices. He/She oversees adherence to the sales process, introduces and implements improvements to the process, and acts as an expert/advisor as required. He/She supports sellers in their territory to adhere to and comply with the sales process and CRM usage guidelines. This position contributes to the development and maintenance of a strong sales pipeline, meeting and exceeding sales, revenue and margin percentage sold (both individual and team), and meeting or exceeding customer satisfaction goals. The Manager effectively manages the business development spend at his/her assigned set of customers per the BD WBSE policy.

Key Responsibilities include:
- Communicates AVANADE’s value and solution effectively through Solution Selling.
- Forges high level relationships with Channel partners and Accounts in the territory Region.
- Identifies major messaging projects within channel partners and co-ordinate our activities through pre-sales, consulting etc. to maximize our solution in the project.
- Identifies and qualifies long-term and short-term business opportunities within named accounts, enhancing the relationship.
- Presents to all levels of the organization including executive level and prepares formal proposals.
- Leads negotiations, coordinates complex decision making process and overcomes objectives to closure.
- Develops and delivers sales presentation and closes sales in a professional and effective manner:
- Develops technical presentation & workshops.

- Organizes channel training to educate, motivate, and activate sales people.

- Maintains up to date awareness of activities, industry trends & government regulations.

- Makes regular sales calls to develop relationships and follow up on leads.

- Acts to close deals & finalize contacts.

- Meets/exceeds sales quotas and revenue goals.
- Handles account relationship management.
- Facilitates executive-level relationships between the customer, AVANADE and its partners; including facilitating communication on strategic and tactical issues.
- Identifies long and short-term opportunities to address the customer’s business needs and pro-actively identifies and addresses competitive threats.
- Researches customer needs and develops applications for the Avanade solution in an effective manner.

- Determines market strategies & goals and understands the messaging strategies, goals and objectives of named accounts.

- Researches and develops lists of potential customers within an organization.

- Follows up on leads and develops leads.

- Maintains an understanding of industry messaging trends and technical developments that affect our target markets.

- Works closely with sales support staff (inside sales account manager, SE, Managers) to establish a communication path with the customer.
- Participates in sales forecasting and planning:

- Researches, develops & maintains long & short range sales & marketing plans

- Ensures Dynamics is utilized appropriately and maintained on a regular basis.
- Develops and maintains communications in a cooperative and professional manner with all levels of staff and customers.

Qualifications:
-BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience.
- Typically 6+ years (minimum 4 years) direct work experience with enterprise EMAIL Solution sales experience.
- Self motivated and independent – proactively keeping management aware of progress with a demonstrated passion to be successful.
- Excellent written and oral communication ability including formal presentation skills to both small and large groups.
- Must be able to understand and articulate complex technology in a simplistic fashion.
- Demonstrated ability in problem solving and negotiation with special emphasis on closing sales.

Qualifications

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) from four year college or university is preferred, but not required. Six plus year direct work experience with enterprise software sales is desired, four years experience is the minimum. Enterprise Email solution sales experience is highly desirable.
-Must be self motivated and independent – proactively keeping management aware of progress with a demonstrated passion to be successful.
- Must have excellent written and oral communication ability including formal presentation skills to both small and large groups.
- Must be able to understand and articulate complex technology in a simplistic fashion.
- Must have demonstrated ability in problem solving and negotiation with special emphasis on closing sales.
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Other Skills/Knowledge:
-Solid understanding of market potential and competition; able to contribute to strategic planning
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with partners and customers
- Comfortable with clients and develops business relationships
- Passionate about selling IT projects and solutions selling
- Strong commercial, delivery and project and program management skills

Required Certifications: N/A

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Additional Area, Region or Service Line specific requirements: N/A

Primary Location:United States
Travel:Yes, 10 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Avanade Managed Services
Job: Business Development
Capability Group: AL - Sales Management

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Description

The Portfolio Director is responsible for successfully managing all aspects of a portfolio of applications/services that support Avanade's business - both new initiatives as well as existing capabilities. The Portfolio Director will work closely with Avanade's business leadership to understand the business priorities, and deliver technology to support these priorities.

New, more complex demands are being placed on IT to deliver large scale, transformational programs. The Enterprise Applications organization within Avanade IT is seeking a leader who can fulfill this responsibility. The IT Portfolio Director will build, develop, coach and enable his/her respective service owners for execution on all programs and services.

Communicating and collaborating effectively and globally are important required skills to be successful in this role. The Portfolio Director will need to engage multiple operating groups and business functions worldwide to define solutions that truly meet end user and business owner needs. They must lead internal teams (on and offshore) to deliver on time and on budget.

Key Responsibilities
-Influence the strategy and lead the execution of how Avanade uses application development to match business objectives and priorities.
- Responsible for a broad portfolio of applications supporting Avanade's business and improving the quality and consistency of ITS's application delivery capabilities.
- Establish and maintain relationships with Avanade business stakeholders, helping bridge their business needs into IT solutions where applicable. The Enterprise Applications team develops an understanding of core business processes and defines solutions to meet those needs while also ensuring the Applications resources leverage appropriate tools and techniques to support and enhance processes. Responsible for the development of business cases and estimates that drive the IT governance process to ensure proper business prioritization balances IT capacity.
- Ensure that application development is conducted in an efficient prioritized and coordinated manner and that the team remains focused and motivated to that aim.
- Assuring the company's application portfolio are architected, developed and maintained in a manner that will allow the business to sustain accelerated growth capability
- Building, developing, inspiring and aligning the team while increasing group effectiveness
- Deliver solutions that serve as showcases of Microsoft technology and Avanade services. Serve as a credential for customer sales teams supporting sales efforts.
- Lead the program 'Deal Shaping' activities, partnering with the business to produce a holistic solutions
- Influence Requirements identification to create differentiation and manage the feature set to generate results.
- Manage the creation of solution blueprint and program estimates.
- Lead the execution of work streams to deliver to customer expectations.

Qualifications

Knowledge/Skills/Experience
-10 + years in the IT industry with significant experience in Solutions Management Consulting /program-based background/Team Leadership
- 5+ years of management experience
- B.S. in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field (preferred). MBA Preferred.
- 7 -10 years of Application Delivery/Consulting experience.
- Executive level experience in growing and leading a medium to large scale program team, preferably within an international environment.
- Strong track record in delivering complex business change.
- Proven ability to coordinate complicated processes across an organization.
- Understanding of a consulting business model and consulting experience preferred.
- Proven influence without authority skills; demonstrated ability to negotiate and give feedback upwards and across the organization.
- Prior Product Management/Business Management experience working with non-IT organizations to define and deliver IT solutions.\
- Relationship management – ability to cultivate and maintain strong networks of people who contribute to the success of the function.
- Strong people leadership skills to build, coach and guide multiple global teams
- Strong communication skills with the ability to understand high level technical details and translate them into business terms and vice-versa.
- Business process analysis and optimization.
- Program Management experience to influence/lead the development and delivery of IT solutions.
- Defining and Leading Change enablement plans.
- Prior System Development experience is a plus (not required) – understanding and experience in application delivery.

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States-Washington-Seattle
Travel:Yes, 10 % of the Time |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Service Mgmt
Capability Group: IT - Service Management (ITS)

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Description

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 13,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Position Purpose:
The scope of this Internal Role covers the lifecycle of a change program and includes the following core offerings:
-Change Strategy - Bringing proven change architectures and best practices to help Avanade internal Programs navigate change.
- Organizational Change Enablement - Enabling Avanade internal Programs and Stakeholders to manage organizational change efforts resulting from system, process or transformational changes:
-Change Management: sample deliverables include stakeholder analysis, change impact analysis, establishing change networks, measuring change progress, business readiness assessments, communication plans, building leadership and commitment and overall Change Plan development.
- Journey Management: defines and manages an Avanade Program‘s overall journey, which involves integrating the journey into Avanade organizational strategy and vision, both in the short- and long-term
- Training & End User Support

The Change Manager will be expected to execute against Program deliverables including work plan development, scope management, work plan management and issue management. They will act as the key point of contact for users with business questions, which will ultimately support fine tuning the stakeholder management approach, communications and training.

The Change Manager will support Avanade’s global change calibration process which reports on strategic initiatives and recommends delivery best practices to align with other Avanade Programs and associated CE strategies.

Program Overview:

Avanade’s Information Security Program main goal is to institutionalize and industrialize the protection of information belonging to the company, its employees and its customers. Avanade’s rapid growth agenda and our strategic initiatives (notably mobility and cloud computing) give rise to materially increased risk to security of information. The increasing threat to customer data through external attack, and legitimate attempts by customers to share that risk with its IT service providers means that increasing our ability to mitigate that risk is more important than ever.

To date our approach has been limited to a centralized Customer Data Protection (CDP) program focused on personally Identifiable Information and leverage of Accenture’s industry certified initiatives in its Delivery Centers.

Our strategy is now to capitalize and build upon these achievements through the execution of a top-down integrated global Information Security program – “fast-following” Accenture’s parent program. This will:
-Support Avanade’s strategic objectives and balance risk against cost
- Establish a base level of capability that is consistent with industry standards and is adhered to everywhere, every day.
- Build a management system that sets out global and local accountabilities, and is scalable and adaptable to deal with increased volume, evolution of threats and advances in technology.
- Demonstrate risk reduction and continuous improvement of security posture, in a quantitative manner.

Executing a change program that impacts the working practices of over 15,000 people in 22 countries, operating in disparate industries is a very significant undertaking. It requires a series of enabling activities such as defining of policies and standards, building of common assets and establishing governance networks, which serve as the foundation.

On that foundation we can then execute risk reduction activities such as education of people, roll-out of process, and deployment of technology, in order to address known threats. We recognize that threats are both malicious and accidental in nature and come from both inside and outside the company.

We also recognize that we can never eliminate Information Security risk purely through design, and therefore our activities must focus not only on prevention of issues, but also on their detection and correction.

Detailed InfoSec Roles & Responsibilities

InfoSec Program Role
-Fair understanding of Information Security Programs (Customer Data Protection, Records Management, Information Security Management System) and its impact on the Avanade business and its clients;
- Knowledge on Avanade Connected Methods for Change Enablement;
- Ability to proactively engage Avanade leadership, key stakeholders and SMEs to develop a long term vision and build strategies to develop processes, engage resources and plan a successful rollout;
- Capability to understand behavior changes of the impacted employees and develop strategies to mitigate any perceived risks;
- Expected to bring to table Information Security domain knowledge along with Change Enablement skills;
- Capacity to work on Change plans for 3-4 InfoSec Programs simultaneously;
- Responsible and accountable for rollout of Information Security programs; and
- Responsible for all data security and maintenance aspects of client projects

InfoSec Program Responsibilities
-Work closely with InfoSec program leads (ISMS lead, RM lead, CDP lead) to design and implement a change solution in alignment to information security solution which shall be closely tied to the business objectives;
- Develop/Update work plan for each InfoSec program workstream;
- Track progress and regularly communicate status/issues to the Core Team;
- Engage end users early (during Plan/Design phases) to overcome any resistance and meet challenges;
- Arrange and attend local team meetings;
- Develop Communication plan and Training plan and timely roll it out post approval from key stakeholders/core team;
- Ensure deployment activities (training, communication) are conducted on time;
- Conduct Change Readiness at different phases of the InfoSec programs
- Ensure impacted employees are well trained, aware and competent to follow the processes and meet the defined SLAs;
- Set up metrics to evaluate success rates at different milestones and go-live;
- Provide post go-live support and resolve issues around people/ business/ processes; and
- Perform regular checks and plan for continuous improvement activities to ensure data security is maintained.

Qualifications

Years of Experience
-6-9 years consulting experience (more for larger, riskier projects)

Management Experience
-4+ years of change management experience
- Experience leading projects as PM or part of Project Team
- Consultancy background preferred

Education
-University degree required

Other Recommended Skills/Knowledge
-Governance Management: Establish project governance and facilitate governance activities.
- Work Planning and Time Management: Enable the processes, tools, and techniques used to accomplish timely completion of project deliverables. This includes establishing and maintaining work plans, and continuously monitoring actuals, and resolving/addressing cost and schedule variances.
- Scope and Requirements Management: Define how project scope and requirements will be managed, controlled, verified and communicated to project teams and stakeholders/customers as well as all work required to complete the project. Facilitate scope change management process.
- Performance and Reporting Management: Enable the processes, tools and techniques required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution and disposition of project progress and status information to project stakeholders.
- Resource Management: Manage the human resources component of projects, enabling the processes, tools and techniques to organize and manage project teams including identifying and documenting roles and responsibilities, creating a staffing plan, obtaining appropriate resources, improving the competencies and interactions of team member and tracking team member performance as well as providing feedback to business leadership and resolving team member issues.
- Issue/Risk Management: Enable the processes, tools and techniques to identify, analyze, track, manage and resolve project problems/risks that impact project managers' ability to meet project goals and objectives as well as issues/risks pertaining to project schedules, costs and quality criteria.
- Distributed project management and cross-cultural teaming: Develop project team structure, develop communication and working processes which promote effective integrated teaming.
- Collaboration: Leverage others (people, group, services) to achieve maximum project results. Use collaboration tools effectively to support the process.
- Outstanding people management and communication skills

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location:United States
Travel:No |
Job Type: Standard
Region:- Global SC
Job: Operations
Capability Group: FI - Operations

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Description

At Avanade, business and technology consulting isn't just your career - it's your passion. And that means more than just working with new innovations. It means using technology to solve business problems in ways that make a real difference to you, your customers, and the world.

At Avanade, we:
- Are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- Thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- Are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.

We are now looking for the right individual to join and take on this exciting role as an experienced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Service Line Lead to manage and grow the current CRM team within our Singapore business. This role will be critical in order to help maintain our market-leading position within the Microsoft CRM marketplace.

Responsibilities:

As the Dynamics CRM Service Line Lead - Singapore, you will: - Drive the Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice in Singapore with a strong focus on working with Business Development Managers to assist with customer presentations, solution architecture, project estimation and resource planning and leading, developing and growing the Dynamics CRM team in Singapore.
- Be responsible for delivering assigned outcomes designed to meet the annual Sales and Revenue and Utilization targets.
- Manage the productivity and delivery quality of the Singapore Dynamics CRM team.
- Be responsible for hiring, coaching and mentoring your people as well as devising comprehensive training and development plans
- Interact with the customers to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context and organizational strategic direction.
- Apply specialized knowledge in a solutions development discipline to conceptualize, design, construct, test, implement and optimize systems that enable and support business functions.
- Define scope, plans and deliverables as well as collect, identify, define and organize detailed user and systems requirements to ensure plans and identified solutions meet the customer needs and expectations.
- Support relationship based selling and assume a lead role during prospecting and closing by working closely with sales team and other technical consultants.
- Work closely with Program managers and bid teams internally to maximize the business development capability and leverage Avanade capabilities.
- Perform solutions technical QA for customer proposals and project deliverables.
- Work with the scheduling team and project managers to identify suitable resources to support presales and project delivery.
- Be responsible for technical delivery of Dynamics CRM projects within technical quality, identified scope and project estimated effort.
- Develop business development collaterals with the Marketing and sales team.
- Maintain high team morale and motivation.
- Evangelize and promote Avanade CRM Assets.
- Work with the APAC Dynamics CRM Service Line lead to develop and drive Dynamics CRM offerings across Singapore.
- Also be the focal point in Avanade's business relationships in the Singapore market: Microsoft, Accenture and other partners with respect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Qualifications

You should have a Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience with 8 years of Dynamics CRM experience in a reputable and large system integrators environment with proven experience of growing a successful CRM practice and have detailed knowledge and experience of CRM technologies within a Consulting or Professional Services environment.

You will have significant project delivery experience and be able to use this experience to lead and grow the CRM practice. This position will give you the opportunity to further develop your management, technical and planning skills by selling and participating in large projects. As this is a leadership role, at least 5 years of management experience is required and the successful candidate needs to have demonstrated the ability to lead, mentor, motivate and guide a development team of team of Dynamics CRM consultants and developers.

You should be able to fulfill all or most of the following criteria:
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and/or 2011 Certifications
- Demonstrated presentation skills with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
- In depth Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution knowledge with respect to:

- Technical - integration and development capability

- Product release and development roadmap.

- Global, regional and local ISV partner ecosystem

- EAI technologies (web services)

- Call/contact center strategies and solution architecture (CTI technology)
- Vertical industry (FSI, Public Sector) knowledge is preferred
- Competitive CRM industry knowledge:

- Tier 1 (Siebel, SAP, Oracle, Onyx) and Tier 2 (Goldmine, Saleslogix, SalesForce.com)

- Business Intelligence solutions and their respective application and integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
- Understanding of Microsoft licensing and pricing
- Well versed in patterns and best practices of .NET application development methodology

Primary Location: Asia Pacific-Singapore-Singapore
Region:- Singapore
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

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Description

At Avanade, business and technology consulting isn't just your career - it's your passion. And that means more than just working with new innovations. It means using technology to solve business problems in ways that make a real difference to you, your customers, and the world.

At Avanade, we:
- Are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- Thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- Are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.

We are now looking for the right individual to join and take on this exciting role as an experienced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Service Line Lead to manage and grow the current CRM team within our Singapore business. This role will be critical in order to help maintain our market-leading position within the Microsoft CRM marketplace.

Responsibilities:

As the Dynamics CRM Service Line Lead - Singapore, you will: - Drive the Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice in Singapore with a strong focus on working with Business Development Managers to assist with customer presentations, solution architecture, project estimation and resource planning and leading, developing and growing the Dynamics CRM team in Singapore.
- Be responsible for delivering assigned outcomes designed to meet the annual Sales and Revenue and Utilization targets.
- Manage the productivity and delivery quality of the Singapore Dynamics CRM team.
- Be responsible for hiring, coaching and mentoring your people as well as devising comprehensive training and development plans
- Interact with the customers to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context and organizational strategic direction.
- Apply specialized knowledge in a solutions development discipline to conceptualize, design, construct, test, implement and optimize systems that enable and support business functions.
- Define scope, plans and deliverables as well as collect, identify, define and organize detailed user and systems requirements to ensure plans and identified solutions meet the customer needs and expectations.
- Support relationship based selling and assume a lead role during prospecting and closing by working closely with sales team and other technical consultants.
- Work closely with Program managers and bid teams internally to maximize the business development capability and leverage Avanade capabilities.
- Perform solutions technical QA for customer proposals and project deliverables.
- Work with the scheduling team and project managers to identify suitable resources to support presales and project delivery.
- Be responsible for technical delivery of Dynamics CRM projects within technical quality, identified scope and project estimated effort.
- Develop business development collaterals with the Marketing and sales team.
- Maintain high team morale and motivation.
- Evangelize and promote Avanade CRM Assets.
- Work with the APAC Dynamics CRM Service Line lead to develop and drive Dynamics CRM offerings across Singapore.
- Also be the focal point in Avanade's business relationships in the Singapore market: Microsoft, Accenture and other partners with respect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Qualifications

You should have a Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience with 8 years of Dynamics CRM experience in a reputable and large system integrators environment with proven experience of growing a successful CRM practice and have detailed knowledge and experience of CRM technologies within a Consulting or Professional Services environment.

You will have significant project delivery experience and be able to use this experience to lead and grow the CRM practice. This position will give you the opportunity to further develop your management, technical and planning skills by selling and participating in large projects. As this is a leadership role, at least 5 years of management experience is required and the successful candidate needs to have demonstrated the ability to lead, mentor, motivate and guide a development team of team of Dynamics CRM consultants and developers.

You should be able to fulfill all or most of the following criteria:
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and/or 2011 Certifications
- Demonstrated presentation skills with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
- In depth Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution knowledge with respect to:

- Technical - integration and development capability

- Product release and development roadmap.

- Global, regional and local ISV partner ecosystem

- EAI technologies (web services)

- Call/contact center strategies and solution architecture (CTI technology)
- Vertical industry (FSI, Public Sector) knowledge is preferred
- Competitive CRM industry knowledge:

- Tier 1 (Siebel, SAP, Oracle, Onyx) and Tier 2 (Goldmine, Saleslogix, SalesForce.com)

- Business Intelligence solutions and their respective application and integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
- Understanding of Microsoft licensing and pricing
- Well versed in patterns and best practices of .NET application development methodology

Primary Location: Asia Pacific-Singapore-Singapore
Region:- Singapore
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

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Description

At Avanade, business and technology consulting isn't just your career - it's your passion. And that means more than just working with new innovations. It means using technology to solve business problems in ways that make a real difference to you, your customers, and the world.

At Avanade, we:
- Are passionate about pushing the limits of Microsoft technologies to help our customers achieve their goals
- Thrive on open dialogue and debate. We share best practices and solve problems through teamwork.
- Are committed to growth - as an organization and for each individual.

We are now looking for the right individual to join and take on this exciting role as an experienced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Service Line Lead to manage and grow the current CRM team within our Singapore business. This role will be critical in order to help maintain our market-leading position within the Microsoft CRM marketplace.

Responsibilities:

As the Dynamics CRM Service Line Lead - Singapore, you will: - Drive the Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice in Singapore with a strong focus on working with Business Development Managers to assist with customer presentations, solution architecture, project estimation and resource planning and leading, developing and growing the Dynamics CRM team in Singapore.
- Be responsible for delivering assigned outcomes designed to meet the annual Sales and Revenue and Utilization targets.
- Manage the productivity and delivery quality of the Singapore Dynamics CRM team.
- Be responsible for hiring, coaching and mentoring your people as well as devising comprehensive training and development plans
- Interact with the customers to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context and organizational strategic direction.
- Apply specialized knowledge in a solutions development discipline to conceptualize, design, construct, test, implement and optimize systems that enable and support business functions.
- Define scope, plans and deliverables as well as collect, identify, define and organize detailed user and systems requirements to ensure plans and identified solutions meet the customer needs and expectations.
- Support relationship based selling and assume a lead role during prospecting and closing by working closely with sales team and other technical consultants.
- Work closely with Program managers and bid teams internally to maximize the business development capability and leverage Avanade capabilities.
- Perform solutions technical QA for customer proposals and project deliverables.
- Work with the scheduling team and project managers to identify suitable resources to support presales and project delivery.
- Be responsible for technical delivery of Dynamics CRM projects within technical quality, identified scope and project estimated effort.
- Develop business development collaterals with the Marketing and sales team.
- Maintain high team morale and motivation.
- Evangelize and promote Avanade CRM Assets.
- Work with the APAC Dynamics CRM Service Line lead to develop and drive Dynamics CRM offerings across Singapore.
- Also be the focal point in Avanade's business relationships in the Singapore market: Microsoft, Accenture and other partners with respect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Qualifications

You should have a Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience with 8 years of Dynamics CRM experience in a reputable and large system integrators environment with proven experience of growing a successful CRM practice and have detailed knowledge and experience of CRM technologies within a Consulting or Professional Services environment.

You will have significant project delivery experience and be able to use this experience to lead and grow the CRM practice. This position will give you the opportunity to further develop your management, technical and planning skills by selling and participating in large projects. As this is a leadership role, at least 5 years of management experience is required and the successful candidate needs to have demonstrated the ability to lead, mentor, motivate and guide a development team of team of Dynamics CRM consultants and developers.

You should be able to fulfill all or most of the following criteria:
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and/or 2011 Certifications
- Demonstrated presentation skills with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
- In depth Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution knowledge with respect to:

- Technical - integration and development capability

- Product release and development roadmap.

- Global, regional and local ISV partner ecosystem

- EAI technologies (web services)

- Call/contact center strategies and solution architecture (CTI technology)
- Vertical industry (FSI, Public Sector) knowledge is preferred
- Competitive CRM industry knowledge:

- Tier 1 (Siebel, SAP, Oracle, Onyx) and Tier 2 (Goldmine, Saleslogix, SalesForce.com)

- Business Intelligence solutions and their respective application and integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
- Understanding of Microsoft licensing and pricing
- Well versed in patterns and best practices of .NET application development methodology

Primary Location: Asia Pacific-Singapore-Singapore
Region:- Singapore
Job: Solution Developer
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

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