2 months ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
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, reinvention opportunities, and transformation roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
- Own and continuously evolve engineering standards for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, including architecture, engineering practices, testing, evaluation, production readiness, and operational support.
- Define AI-native engineering practices involving agent-assisted development, automated evaluation, reusable components, observability, and production operations.
- Create reference architectures, solution patterns, and decision frameworks using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Avanade Agentic Platform, and broader Microsoft capabilities.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, career-pathway, and reskilling standards for the FDE track.
- Deploy personally 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 delivery lessons to the platform, product portfolio, and delivery model.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software or AI engineering, including 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 when the experience is transferable.
- Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards for a team, including when there was initial disagreement.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and pace while maintaining a defensible hiring bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to operate as a deployed Forward Deployed Engineer rather than directing solely from a studio.
- Ability to build a capability with substantial internal transfer from traditional delivery and provide meaningful reskilling.
- Experience connecting technical solutions to measurable business outcomes, governance, risk, evaluation, adoption, and enterprise-scale operations.
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.