2 months ago
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients and internal architects to understand business priorities and translate them into practical, commercially viable, technically feasible AI-enabled solutions.
- Convert business cases, transformation opportunities, and roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
- Own and continuously evolve engineering standards for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, including architecture, testing, evaluation, production readiness, and operational support.
- Define AI-native engineering practices involving agent-assisted development, automated evaluation, reusable components, observability, and production operations.
- Establish reference architectures and decision frameworks using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Avanade Agentic Platform, and broader Microsoft capabilities.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, career-pathway, and re-skilling standards for the FDE track.
- Personally deploy on complex, strategic, at-risk, and 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 strengthen the platform 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 experience with agentic engineering, including orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, observability, and failure handling.
- Strong command of the Microsoft AI stack, with equivalent depth on another stack considered when the experience transfers credibly.
- Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards for a team, including gaining adoption from initially resistant stakeholders.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at scale and pace with a defensible quality bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to deploy directly with clients rather than lead solely from the studio.
- Experience building capabilities that include re-skilling engineers transitioning from traditional delivery into AI-native FDE roles.
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.