Associate Manager, Solution Architecture
Job Description
Avanade is looking for an experienced Technical Architect to lead the architecture, modernization, migration, and delivery of enterprise collaboration solutions across SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server (on-premises), Microsoft 365, and Power Platform. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, translate business and technical requirements into secure and scalable solution architectures, and provide hands-on leadership throughout the entire solution lifecycle.
This position demands extensive SharePoint migration experience using ShareGate and other migration tools, as well as experience delivering projects for Singapore government agencies within Government Cloud and Whole-of-Government (WOG) cloud environments. The architect will also help support Microsoft Copilot readiness and adoption discussions, and coach delivery teams on governance, security, compliance, information architecture, integration, and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities
Lead architecture and technical delivery for SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server (on-premises), Microsoft 365, and digital workplace transformation programmes.
Work with business, security, infrastructure, application, and operations stakeholders to evaluate requirements and convert them into scalable, secure, supportable, and cost-effective solution architectures.
Develop current-state and target-state architectures, solution options, technical roadmaps, migration strategies, implementation approaches, and transition plans.
Create SharePoint information architecture, including site structure, hub architecture, metadata, content types, taxonomy, navigation, search, permissions, records considerations, and lifecycle management.
Architect SharePoint on-premises farms and hybrid solutions, including topology, capacity, availability, identity, authentication, networking, integration, patching, backup, disaster recovery, and operational support considerations.
Lead sophisticated migrations from legacy SharePoint versions, file shares, and other content repositories to SharePoint Online or more current SharePoint Server environments.
Define migration discovery, assessment, remediation, mapping, wave planning, pilot, execution, validation, reconciliation, cutover, rollback, and post-migration support activities.
Use ShareGate extensively and help determine and apply other appropriate migration tools based on source platform, content volume, security, metadata, compliance, reporting, and cutover requirements.
Design solutions using Power Platform, including Power Apps and Power Automate, with the right environment strategy, governance, security, data-loss-prevention controls, application lifecycle management, monitoring, and support models.
Design integrations with Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Office applications, line-of-business systems, APIs, and approved enterprise services.
Provide architecture guidance for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio readiness, governance, security, information protection, adoption planning, and prioritized business use cases.
Apply Microsoft 365 and SharePoint governance, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, records management, audit, and information protection principles.
Ensure solution designs meet Singapore public-sector architecture, security, compliance, hosting, network, identity, documentation, and approval requirements relevant to Government and WOG cloud environments.
Develop and review solution architecture deliverables, including high-level and low-level designs, migration runbooks, configuration specifications, interface designs, security designs, test strategies, operational handover documents, and architecture decision records.
Facilitate technical workshops, design reviews, architecture governance forums, proof of concepts, estimations, proposal development, demonstrations, and client presentations.
Provide technical leadership to developers, migration engineers, administrators, testers, and support teams by reviewing deliverables and addressing architecture or delivery risks.
Mentor junior team members and help build reusable assets, standards, accelerators, reference architectures, and capability development across the practice.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Minimum 10-15 years of overall IT consulting, architecture, solution delivery, and technical leadership experience.
Proven experience serving as a Technical Architect or Solution Architect for enterprise SharePoint and Microsoft 365 programmes.
Strong, practical hands-on expertise in SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server (on-premises), including architecture, configuration, customization, integration, governance, security, administration, modernization, and troubleshooting.
Significant end-to-end migration experience using ShareGate, including working knowledge of other enterprise migration tools and approaches for SharePoint, file shares, and Microsoft 365 workloads.
Experience planning and delivering large or complex migration programmes, including discovery, inventory analysis, dependency assessment, remediation, permissions mapping, metadata transformation, test migrations, wave execution, reconciliation, cutover, rollback, and hyper care.
Experience delivering Singapore government-sector projects and working within Government Cloud and Whole-of-Government (WOG) cloud environments.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Office applications, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Copilot Studio.
Strong Power Platform experience, particularly Power Apps and Power Automate, including solution architecture, integration, security, governance, environment strategy, data-loss-prevention policies, and application lifecycle management.
Strong understanding of identity and access management, authentication, authorization, conditional access, privileged access, information protection, compliance, audit, retention, records management, and data residency considerations.
Ability to assess non-functional requirements across performance, availability, scalability, security, maintainability, recoverability, interoperability, monitoring, and supportability.
Experience facilitating architecture, discovery, and design workshops with senior business and technical stakeholders.
Ability to create clear architecture and engineering documentation and communicate complex technical decisions to executive, business, security, and delivery stakeholders.
Excellent consulting, stakeholder management, problem-solving, estimation, presentation, and written and verbal communication skills.
Technical Skills
SharePoint: SharePoint Online SharePoint Server/on-premises hybrid architectures site and hub architecture search managed metadata content types permissions governance administration modernization.
Migration: ShareGate migration assessment and planning content and permissions mapping remediation wave planning pilot and test migrations cutover and rollback validation and reconciliation migration reporting.
Microsoft 365: Microsoft Teams OneDrive Outlook Office applications Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Graph Microsoft 365 governance, security, compliance, and adoption.
Power Platform: Power Apps Power Automate connectors integration patterns environment strategy governance data-loss-prevention policies solution packaging and application lifecycle management.
AI and Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio readiness, governance, security, adoption planning, business-value discussions, and use-case prioritization.
Architecture and Delivery: Current-state and target-state architecture high-level and low-level design integration and security architecture non-functional requirements estimation risk management technical governance production transition.
Government Environment: Singapore public-sector project delivery Government Cloud WOG cloud environments architecture and security review engagement controlled deployment and operational handover.
Preferred Qualifications
Microsoft certifications in SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Azure, security, solution architecture, or related technologies.
Experience with SharePoint Framework (SPFx), PowerShell, PnP PowerShell, REST APIs, Microsoft Graph, Azure services, DevOps pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
Experience with records management, enterprise search, information protection, retention, eDiscovery, audit, and regulated content-management scenarios.
Experience working in global delivery, consulting, managed-service, or multi-vendor environments.
Experience supporting bids, proposals, solution estimates, statements of work, delivery planning, and client presentations.
Value-Add Experience
Experience designing, developing, modernizing, or migrating workflows and forms built using Nintex.
Experience with K2 Five, including workflow, forms, integrations, administration, upgrade, modernization, or migration considerations.
Knowledge of replacing or rationalizing legacy workflow platforms through Power Apps and Power Automate where appropriate.
Key Competencies
Technical Architecture
SharePoint & M365 Solution Design
Migration Leadership
Government-Sector Delivery
Security & Governance
Power Platform Architecture
Stakeholder Management
Consulting & Advisory
Delivery Leadership
Problem Solving
Documentation & Communication
Mentoring & Capability Building
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