1 month ago
Sydney, Australia +3 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients and internal architects to identify AI opportunities and translate business priorities into practical, commercially viable, production-ready solutions.
- 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 for using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Avanade Agentic Platform, and Microsoft capabilities.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, career-pathway, and enablement standards for the FDE track.
- Personally deploy on complex, strategic, at-risk, or reference-critical client mandates.
- Partner with platform, product, delivery, value, and trust leaders to ensure repeatable foundations, measurable business outcomes, governance, risk management, evaluation, and adoption.
- Contribute reusable solution patterns, 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 depth on another stack 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 rather than directing solely from the studio.
- Experience building capabilities through internal transfer and genuinely reskilling engineers from traditional delivery.
- Australian Citizens are preferred; Permanent Residents will also be considered.
Benefits
- Flexible location across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.
- Australian Citizens are preferred, with Permanent Residents also considered.
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.