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Avanade

Digital transformation, cloud, and IT consulting.

Director of Applications and Infrastructure - Pre-Sales

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaCA$160k - CA$200k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in consulting, technology sales, solution development, and delivery leadership.
  • Demonstrated success growing a pipeline, contributing to revenue targets, and developing client relationships in Quebec; deep knowledge of the Montreal market is required.
  • Proven ability to qualify and shape complex opportunities, conduct executive-level discussions, and support workshops, proposals, and oral presentations.
  • Strong delivery leadership experience, including overseeing strategic engagements, guiding teams, managing risks, and handling executive escalations.
  • Experience in consulting, professional services, or a comparable client-facing technology environment.
  • Broad, current understanding of Microsoft Azure, enterprise applications, infrastructure, networks, security, identity, data, and artificial intelligence.
  • Ability to engage credibly with architects and engineers, challenge solution assumptions, and connect technical choices to business value, risk, cost, and delivery feasibility.
  • Experience shaping cloud modernization, application transformation, hybrid cloud, or artificial-intelligence-enabled solutions in complex enterprise environments.
  • Strong knowledge of architectural principles including scalability, resilience, security, governance, and cost optimization.
  • Demonstrated curiosity and commitment to continuous learning as Microsoft platforms, engineering practices, and artificial intelligence capabilities evolve.
  • Fluency in French and English is required.
  • Must be based in the Montreal region or available to work in the region with client-site presence.

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute the regional applications and infrastructure growth agenda in Quebec, with a strong focus on the Montreal market.
  • Build market presence and trusted relationships with priority clients, Microsoft, and the local business and technology community.
  • Drive pipeline development, revenue growth, and account expansion in partnership with sales, account, and practice leaders.
  • Identify market opportunities and translate client priorities into targeted offerings and go-to-market activities.
  • Represent the practice in executive client conversations and help position differentiated business value in the Quebec market.
  • Qualify opportunities based on client needs, strategic fit, value potential, competitive position, and delivery feasibility.
  • Shape opportunities from early discovery through solution strategy, commercial approach, proposal development, and close.
  • Collaborate with sales and account teams to develop pursuit strategies, value propositions, and executive-level messaging.
  • Lead or support client workshops, proposal presentations, solution orals, negotiations, and other critical sales-cycle moments alongside technical and commercial teams.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and senior business and technology leaders.
  • Lead executive workshops, strategic sessions, and discovery discussions that connect business priorities to concrete transformation opportunities.
  • Translate complex technical topics into clear business outcomes, investment cases, risks, and decision points.
  • Build lasting client relationships and influence strategic roadmaps across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and artificial intelligence.
  • Oversee strategic engagements, helping teams stay aligned on client outcomes, scope, quality, and commercial commitments.
  • Guide delivery leads and architects through complex decisions, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder challenges.
  • Support escalations requiring executive leadership, technical judgment, or cross-functional coordination.
  • Apply sound engineering and architectural judgment across Microsoft Azure, enterprise applications, infrastructure, security, data, and artificial intelligence without serving as the primary hands-on architect for every engagement.
  • Stay current on relevant engineering practices and Microsoft technologies, using that knowledge to strengthen business and delivery outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate certification or an equivalent artificial intelligence certification.
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification.
  • Other advanced Azure, artificial intelligence, and development certifications.

About the Company

Avanade

Digital transformation, cloud, and IT consulting.

Avanade helps large organizations move to digital operations using Microsoft-based solutions. It combines consulting, implementation, and managed services to deliver digital transformation, cloud migration, and optimized business processes. Its offerings are built around the Microsoft ecosystem, with partnerships with Microsoft and Accenture enabling tailored, enterprise-grade deployments. Avanade differentiates itself by aligning technology delivery with business outcomes for enterprise and public sector clients, focusing on long-term service contracts and customized design-led experiences. The company's goal is to drive efficiency, improve customer experiences, and support sustainable growth for clients through technology-enabled transformation.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
2000

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