Lead Security Architect in London

Avanade's two marketing channels – direct and indirect through Microsoft and Accenture – develop market‐relevant capabilities and solutions that address critical business and technology challenges. The AMBG provides sales, solutioning and delivery support to client groups, helping us win and sustain long‐lasting relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• The UK AMBG Lead Security Architect blends market, sales and solutioning, people, and delivery excellence.
• Reporting to the UKI AMBG Security Lead, you own solutioning and delivery of all Microsoft Security work in the AMBG channel, working with large enterprise customers across the UK and globally.
• Your role is to define and drive existing and new offerings and capabilities that seize market advantage and business growth, support sales development and conversion, and guide AMBG Security architects and delivery teams with new solutions and delivery challenges.

What you’ll do

• Thought leadership in Microsoft security.
• Lead sales, solutioning, and delivery.
• Create and evolve go‐to‐market assets and solutions.
• Build internal and client‐facing relationships, establishing a strong network and trust.
• Serve as a brand ambassador, representing AMBG Security in the market and with clients and partners.

Skills and experiences

• Strong leadership, communication skills, client presence, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
• Recognized Microsoft security thought leader, ideally with external credibility.
• Broad Microsoft security technical, delivery, and sales experience across Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, and Cloud Security.
• Ability to lead large‐scale Microsoft security transformations and managed security services opportunities.
• Ability to identify, define, and build new offerings from ideation through to market.
• Advanced Microsoft security certifications such as SC‐100, SC‐200, SC‐401, etc.

Nice to have

• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, GIAC.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (GDPR, NIST AI RMF, ISO 27001, SOC 2, etc.).
• Experience building organizational culture and driving employee engagement, inclusion, and diversity.
• Market‐focused with a growth mindset.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a highly matrixed company to deliver results within a region.

About you

• Deep competency in Microsoft security consulting and managed services.
• Extensive experience growing and leading Microsoft Security offerings, capable of leading large‐scale impact opportunities.
• Deep experience understanding client needs and selling and delivering assets and solutions.
• Experience shaping and developing people skills and capabilities of a large team.
• Collaborative by nature, driven to share with and develop others.

Enjoy your career

• Opportunity to work for a Microsoft Global Alliance Partner of the Year (20 years running).
• Exceptional development and training – at least 80 hours of paid training and certifications per year.
• Real‐time access to technical and skilled resources worldwide.
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth.
• Engaged, helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you.
• Work on some of the largest and most cutting‐edge Microsoft Security engagements in the world.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll experience distinctive opportunities, limitless learning, and ambitious growth. We are a community of smart, supportive collaborators who lift, mentor, and guide one another. Our culture is purpose‐built to deliver business‐critical, leading‐edge technology solutions that improve the way people work, interact, and live.

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page. Our future for our people focuses on expanding your thinking, experimenting courageously, learning and pivoting, inspiring greatness, accelerating impact, and acting as one.