Europe Technical Lead / Solution Architect

Avanade’s Legacy Transformation Service Hub (LMSH) prides itself on over 25 years in providing fast and flexible Legacy Transformations for large customers.Avanade’s Automated Migration Technology (AMT) provides an 100% automated migration of legacy enterprise application programming languages such as COBOL and JCL to modern programming languages such as Java and Python, or .NET and PowerShell. In addition, data is automatically migrated from legacy databases such as DB2 to open platform databases such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server. These migrated applications can then be delivered either on premise or in the Cloud.With consultants across Europe and the US, we are a team of highly skilled and experienced IT professionals dedicated to Legacy Transformation and post migration modernization and support.Come join usYou will primarily technically lead the delivery of large legacy transformation and modernization projects and programs using your experience in .NET and/or Java together with Avanade’s AMT toolset. You will leverage cloud technologies and DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization.Skills And ExperiencesExcellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated excellence in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form.5+ years programming in either Java using IntelliJ or similar IDE and Python or C# / .Net using MS Visual Studio, ASP.NET, and PowerShell. Ideally also knowledge of legacy programming languages too, for example, COBOL, Assembler, JCL, etc.A reasonable understanding of:›DevOps and build tools, for example, Azure DevOps, Maven, Jenkins etc.›Containers such as Docker, Kubernetes / AKS.›Windows Server/AD, VM’s, Azure or AWS Cloud.›PostgreSQL, or SQL Server, or other open databases.Ideally knowledge of mainframe infrastructure and operations.Ideally previous experience in managing large enterprise mainframe applications or alternatively have worked previously in large legacy migration/modernization projects.About YouIdeally previous experience in managing large enterprise mainframe applications or alternatively have worked previously in large legacy migration/modernization projects.What You'll DoYou will provide management and mentoring of technical consultants assigned to the project to deliver the migrated sources and data and the setup and configuration of the target environment. You will guide and mentor consultants in the investigation defects reported by the client in the migrated applications or environment configuration and propose the best course of action for resolution. You will work closely with the AMT product R&D Migration team. In addition, you will assist the client to understand the migrated environment by providing training and knowledge transfer and prepare and present status reports to Delivery Leads and project executives and sponsors.The role involves occasionally travelling onsite to clients, either to run Site Surveys to discover the make-up of the current legacy environment to be migrated, or to support key events during the delivery of the legacy migration/modernization project.Learn moreTo learn more about the types of projects our Infrastructure team works on check out these case studies: VentilatorChallengeUK manufactures 20 years’ worth of ventilators in 12 weeks to help save lives Landmark Information Group finds a new home for its data in the cloudInterested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? 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