Avanade
Forward Deployed Engineer Lead Practitioner
Overview
The Forward Deployed Engineer Lead Practitioner sets the standard for how Avanade Next turns business ambition into production reality, combining business understanding, solution architecture, and engineering leadership.
About Avanade
At Avanade, we advance the world through the power of people and Microsoft. Join us to shape your skills and the future with bold ideas and innovative solutions. Our partnership with Microsoft and Accenture empowers you to unlock your full potential.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 8+ years in software or AI engineering, with senior or lead accountability for systems that ran in production
- Deep, current, hands-on agentic engineering: orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, observability and failure handling
- Strong command of the Microsoft AI stack
- Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and at pace
- Client-facing credibility
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with clients, Industry Reinvention Leads, Domain Architects, Value Architects and Trust Architects to understand business priorities
- Help clients identify where AI can create meaningful value and shape solution concepts
- Bridge the gap between strategy and execution by converting business cases into production-ready solution architectures
- Own the engineering standard for the FDE track
- Define and continuously evolve AI-native engineering practices
- Set and maintain the hiring, assessment and capability-development standards for the FDE track
- Deploy personally onto the most complex, strategic, at-risk or reference-critical mandates
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