Microsoft IAM Consultant​/Associate Manager

Digital Identity Consultant (AD Security & Resilience)

As a Digital Identity Consultant (AD Security & Resilience), you will design, secure, and optimise enterprise identity solutions across Microsoft Entra  Active Directory environments. You will work directly with clients to modernise authentication, strengthen identity governance, and enhance AD resilience, contributing to robust and scalable digital identity architectures for medium to large enterprise organisations.

• Develop and implement modern authentication solutions (OAuth, SAML, token‑based authentication, claims transformations).
• Manage identities and authentication services using Microsoft Entra , including SSO, Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, and authentication methods.
• Enhance and secure Active Directory environments, including AD knowledge and best practices.

• Strong knowledge of Active Directory security, resilience, and legacy authentication protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM).
• Experience with Microsoft Entra , including SSO, Conditional Access, MFA, identity governance, and domain services.
• Proficiency in modern authentication protocols (OAuth, SAML) and app integrations.
• Experience with Entra Application Provisioning (SCIM) and management of internal, external, and client identities.
• Skilled in Power Shell automation and Azure‑based identity tools.
• Understanding of IAM lifecycle management, identity governance, and secure authentication principles.
• Experience leading or supporting identity solution design and implementation.
• Strong analytic, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.

As a Microsoft D365 CE and Power Platform Solution Architect at Avanade, you will lead delivery engagements, providing expert services to solution and deliver large complex deals that span multiple technologies and offerings, including AI. You will lead the delivery team and provide architecture guidance and direction leveraging your deep knowledge of Dynamics 365 CE, Power Platform and AI solutions. You are also seen as a technology leader within the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community and you routinely share your knowledge on bleeding‑edge topics in community and internal events.

• Contribute across all phases of Avanade projects using both traditional waterfall and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Lead and assist with pre‑sales engagements, meeting tight timelines.
• Leverage technical expertise to architect, design and implement D365 CE, Power Platform, and AI solutions. Hands‑on work with Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform is required.
• Liaise effectively between clients, IT staff, and business partners to ensure high quality and timely delivery.
• Assess client requirements and scope and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Design conceptual and technical architectures.
• Ensure project quality meets high technical standards.
• Partner with cross‑functional technology and design teams to ensure consistent, positive client interaction and solution delivery.
• Support the team in defining technical, non‑functional, and operational requirements.
• Oversee the timely and effective resolution of client issues.
• Work under general guidance and direction, but fully independent in own work with latitude for autonomous decision‑making related to work process.
• Travel as needed; may be required to travel based on pre‑sales and project demands.

Avanade is growing, and we seek motivated and engaged technology people to join our Managed Services team delivering continuous value to our client’s businesses. As a Dynamics 365 CRM Support Engineer, you bring strong customer engagement functional knowledge and hands‑on technical experience to our Shared Services team. This is a hybrid role – you’ll understand CRM business processes across Sales, Customer Service, Marketing and Field Service, while also being able to investigate, configure, customise and resolve technical issues across Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and the Power Platform.

You are energetic and passionate about using Dynamics 365 CRM to solve practical business problems and…