{"id":3044140,"url":"https://alion.io/job/avanade-ai-application-architecture-manager","title":"AI Application Architecture Manager","company":{"id":712684,"name":"Avanade","domain":"avanade.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/avanade-3","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":116,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":13,"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":84000,"max_usd":164000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":139},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T03:48:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":28,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":28},"description":"Introduction\nJoin Avanade UK’s Software Engineering Practice as a hands-on AI Application Architect, helping design intelligent, agentic, cloud-native application designs. You will apply advanced AI techniques to accelerate every phase of the delivery lifecycle - from analysis and design to build, test, deploy, and operate - driving transformation across complex enterprise legacy portfolios.\nThis role operates across solution architecture, Agentic platform innovation, and commercial deal shaping, with a focus on building and scaling agentic engineering capabilities across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).\nRole Overview\nAs part of a growing Software Engineering Practice, you will focus on modern application architecture while pioneering the use of agentic AI in real delivery scenarios.\nYou will collaborate closely with other Practices on direct deals, leading during solutioning phases as well as during critical delivery phases. Whether modernising legacy systems or building greenfield solutions from scratch, you will apply agentic AI to transform how projects are executed end-to-end.\nThis is a unique opportunity to influence Avanade’s architecture direction, elevate engineering productivity, and lead high-impact initiatives across our client base.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead C-Level application modernisation strategy discussions, workshops and executive briefings.\nAct as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving digital transformation initiatives.\nDesign and Lead Proof of Value work for application transformation clients.\nProvide SME capabilities on application remediation, technologies and transformation, both infrastructure and software as well as application integration.\nValidate Solution approach for modernisation projects, own deliverability of the technical and functional solution, ensuring correctness and achieve sign off.\nCollaborate with delivery, sales, and partner teams to shape proposals and ensure successful execution.\nProvide technical leadership to delivery teams and mentor solution architects.\nLead assessments and transformation of legacy environments defining modernisation strategies (refactor, replatform, replace, etc).\nEstablish modernisation frameworks and enforce architectural standards across programs\nApply AI agents across all delivery phases: analysis, design, build, test, deploy, and operations.\nDrive AI adoption cross-practice and cross-region, enabling AI-driven solution roadmaps.\nDevelop accelerators, reference architectures, and reusable assets for agentic AI patterns.\nGuide engineering, data, and DevOps teams on AI automation and pipeline integration.\nTravel occasionally for high-value client engagements.\n.\nSkills and Experience\n6-8 years of experience designing and developing enterprise-scale applications.\nStrong foundation in software engineering including frontend, backend, APIs, data, and cloud architecture.\nExpertise in C# or Java as a primary language; experience with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript an advantage\nProven delivery experience applying agentic AI to modernise legacy systems or building new custom solutions.\nHands-on expertise with agentic AI frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework, LangChain, or equivalents.\nAbility to apply AI agents across all phases of delivery: requirements, architecture, coding, testing, documentation, and deployment.\nExperience with LLMs, prompt engineering, open models and orchestration patterns.\nStrong Azure expertise preferred\nExtensive experience of agentic engineering with GitHub Copilot and/or Claude Enterprise preferred.\nExperience with integrating AI into distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.\nDevOps experience including CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, observability, and deployment automation.\nFamiliarity with Responsible AI, and enterprise governance.\nCloud, AI engineering, or architecture certifications are a plus.\nAbout You\nPassionate about driving transformation with AI with hands-on experience helping clients to transform their legacy applications.\nComfortable leading business transformation, software engineering, AI, cloud, and automation\nClear communicator across senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nAbility to drive sales and lead client conversations about AI Apps transformation\nEnjoy mentoring teams and raising overall AI engineering maturity.\nContinuously explore emerging AI frameworks, tools, and architectural approaches.\n.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4479,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Professional Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T23:46:54Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-27T06:21:15+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":17,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.479,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":28,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/avanade-ai-application-architecture-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/avanade-ai-application-architecture-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T17:05:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6578,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":712684},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=712684"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Favanade-ai-application-architecture-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Favanade-ai-application-architecture-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Favanade-ai-application-architecture-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/avanade-ai-application-architecture-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Favanade-ai-application-architecture-manager"}]}