2 months ago
Jakarta, IndonesiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients and internal architecture and value teams to identify AI opportunities and translate business priorities into production-ready solutions.
- Convert business cases and transformation roadmaps into solution architectures and delivery plans that are commercially viable, technically feasible, and enterprise-scalable.
- Own and evolve engineering standards for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, including architecture patterns, engineering practices, testing, evaluation, production readiness, and operational support.
- Define AI-native engineering practices covering agent-assisted development, automated evaluation, reusable components, observability, and production operations.
- Define reference architectures and decision frameworks for selecting Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Avanade Agentic Platform, and other Microsoft capabilities.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, career-pathway, and enablement standards for the FDE track.
- Lead structured re-skilling of traditional delivery engineers into AI-native Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Personally deploy on complex, strategic, at-risk, or reference-critical client mandates.
- Collaborate with platform, product, delivery, quality, value, and trust leaders to ensure repeatable, governed, measurable, production-grade solutions.
- Contribute reusable solution patterns, reference architectures, engineering assets, and engagement lessons to strengthen 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 that were maintained after launch.
- 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 where the transfer is credible.
- Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards for a team, including gaining adoption from initially resistant stakeholders.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and pace with a defensible quality bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to deploy directly with clients rather than lead solely from a studio.
- Experience building a capability that includes substantial internal transfers from traditional delivery and requires meaningful re-skilling.
- Ability to lead across business understanding, solution architecture, engineering, talent development, 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.