20 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients and internal architects to understand business priorities and translate them into commercially viable, technically feasible AI-enabled solutions.
- Convert business cases, transformation opportunities, and roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
- Own and evolve engineering standards for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, including architecture, testing, evaluation, observability, production readiness, and operational support.
- Define AI-native engineering practices using agent-assisted development, automated evaluation, reusable components, observability, and production operations.
- Establish reference architectures and decision frameworks for selecting Microsoft AI capabilities and Avanade platforms.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, career-pathway, and reskilling standards for the FDE track.
- Deploy directly on complex, strategic, at-risk, or reference-critical client engagements.
- Collaborate with platform, product, delivery, quality, value, and trust leaders to ensure repeatable, governed, production-grade solutions.
- Contribute reusable solution patterns, reference architectures, engineering assets, and delivery lessons to the platform and product portfolio.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software or AI engineering with senior or lead accountability for production systems.
- Deep, current, hands-on experience with agentic engineering, including orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, observability, and failure handling.
- Strong command of the Microsoft AI stack, with equivalent expertise on another stack considered when transferable.
- Experience setting and enforcing engineering standards for a team, including gaining adoption from people who initially disagreed.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and pace while maintaining a defensible hiring bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to be deployed directly with clients.
- Ability to build and scale a capability that includes reskilling traditional delivery engineers into AI-native Forward Deployed Engineers.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Avanade
Avanade is the world’s leading expert on Microsoft. Trusted by over 7,000 clients worldwide, we deliver AI-driven solutions that unlock the full potential of people and technology, optimize operations, foster innovation and drive growth. As Microsoft’s Global SI Partner we combine global scale with local expertise in AI, cloud, data analytics, cybersecurity, and ERP to design solutions that prioritize people and drive meaningful impact. We champion diversity, inclusion, and sustainability, ensuring our work benefits society and business.