Sr Consultant/Manager, CRM Solution Dev (New York or Boston)

Job description

About Avanade:

Avanade is a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture founded in 2000 to bring business technology services built on the Microsoft platform to enterprises globally. With the release of Dynamics CRM 2013, Microsoft has heightened the importance and expectation for CRM solutions. As Microsoft's leading Dynamics CRM solution provider, Avanade combines extensive implementation expertise, leading practices, and user experience design with the strength, stability and power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM software enabling companies to maximize the business value of their CRM Solution. Across the globe and in multiple industries, Avanade helps enterprises create superior customer experiences, deepen customer relationships and maximize business agility.

Description:

A CRM Solution Developer is involved at various stages throughout the project lifecycle. The Solution Developer will provide technical leadership on large and complex projects to the functional team, development team, and clients. The CRM Solution Developer's job is to understand not only the technical environment, but also the functional requirements of the project. They typically work as the Technical Architect to customize and extend the Microsoft Dynamics CRM software package to meet the needs of our clients. Other responsibilities would entail being a Career Manager and mentor to other developers within the organization.

PRIMARY Responsibilities:

Project Execution (70%)

- Lead Technical implementation team

- Provide thought leadership during all stages of delivery

- Lead development of technical specifications based on functional specifications

- Lead and develop components of the customer solution

- Resolve and provide guidance technical issues

Sales Support (30%)

-Help determine and translate customer needs into an Avanade solution and approach

-Contribute to proposal development

-Contribute to scope, approach, and estimating input to the proposal team

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

- BS/BA in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.

- 3+ years' experience using web development tools and technologies such as:

-ASP.Net, C#, .NET, SQL Server or similar products

- 2+ years' experience in enterprise business application development and delivery.

- Professional IT Consulting experience

- Solid track record of working within a team environment (onshore & offshore)

- Understanding of software development methodologies (Waterfall and/or Agile)

- A proven understanding of object oriented concepts and design.

- A proven ability to develop complex technical designs

- Good communication and analysis skills

- Ability to travel 80% of the time to the customer location

- Advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills

- Strong customer service skills

Technical/Other Skills:

- JQuery

- JavaScript

- TFS

- Visual Studio

- Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Microsoft Word, Excel & Visio

- Strong technical background on MS technologies/trends.

Preferred Requirements:

- 1+ years of development experience with Dynamics CRM

- Mobile Development

- Abstraction Framework

- Angular.js, and Breeze.js etc

- HTML 5

- Data Migration (Scribe, SSIS)

- WCF

- SOAP

- BizTalk (or equivalent ESB)

- Microsoft BI experience

- SharePoint

Avanade® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, veteran, military or marital status, genetic information or any other protected status.