2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with clients and internal architects to identify business priorities and shape commercially viable, technically feasible AI solutions.
- Translate business cases and transformation roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
- Own and evolve engineering standards for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, including architecture, testing, evaluation, observability, production readiness, and operations.
- Define reference architectures, reusable components, decision frameworks, and AI-native engineering practices.
- Set hiring, assessment, capability-development, career-pathway, and re-skilling standards for the FDE track.
- Personally deploy to complex, strategic, at-risk, and reference-critical client engagements.
- Collaborate with platform, product, delivery, quality, value, and trust leaders to ensure repeatable, governed, outcome-focused solutions.
- Contribute reusable solution patterns, engineering assets, and delivery lessons to the Avanade Next 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 transfer is credible.
- Experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards across a team.
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and pace with a defensible hiring bar.
- Client-facing credibility and willingness to deploy directly with clients.
- Experience building capabilities through internal transfers and genuinely re-skilling traditional delivery engineers.
- Experience with production systems that were maintained after launch.
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.