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Responsibilities
- Partner with clients and internal architecture and value teams to translate business priorities into commercially viable, technically feasible AI-enabled solutions.
- Convert business cases, transformation opportunities, and roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
- Own the Forward Deployed Engineer track’s engineering standards, 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.
- Establish reference architectures and decision frameworks for selecting appropriate Microsoft AI capabilities and Avanade platforms.
- Set hiring, assessment, career-pathway, and capability-development standards for the FDE track.
- Lead structured reskilling of traditional delivery engineers into AI-native Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Personally deploy on complex, strategic, at-risk, or reference-critical client mandates.
- Partner with platform, product, delivery, quality, value, and trust leaders to ensure repeatable, governed, measurable production outcomes.
- 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; equivalent depth on another stack may be considered when the experience is transferable.
- Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards for a team.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and pace while maintaining a defensible hiring bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to deploy directly with clients.
- Experience building capabilities with substantial internal-transfer and reskilling needs.
- Ability to work across business understanding, solution architecture, engineering leadership, and production delivery.
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.