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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 and transformation roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
- Own the engineering standard for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, including architecture patterns, engineering practices, testing, evaluation, production readiness, and operational support.
- Define and evolve AI-native engineering practices involving agent-assisted development, automated evaluation, reusable components, observability, and production operations.
- Define reference architectures and decision frameworks using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Avanade Agentic Platform, and broader Microsoft capabilities.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, and reskilling standards for the FDE track.
- Personally deploy on complex, strategic, at-risk, or reference-critical client engagements.
- Partner 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, product portfolio, and delivery model.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software or AI engineering with senior or lead accountability for production systems.
- Deep, current, hands-on agentic engineering experience across orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, observability, and failure handling.
- Strong command of the Microsoft AI stack; equivalent depth on another stack may be considered when the transfer is credible.
- Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards for a team.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and pace with a defensible hiring bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to deploy directly with clients.
- Experience building capabilities that include reskilling engineers transferring from traditional delivery roles.
- Ability to operate across business understanding, solution architecture, and hands-on engineering leadership.
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.