Lead Agentic AI Engineer

Avanade
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentorship","Stakeholder management","Collaboration","Technical leadership","Agile delivery"]

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade generative AI and agentic solutions in enterprise environments using Microsoft technologies. Lead end-to-end delivery from discovery through implementation, deployment, and handover, making technical architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, security, and cost. Build agentic workflows with LLMs, evaluation frameworks, and observability/governance, while supporting pre-sales and mentoring junior team members in agile delivery.

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Avanade
Avanade
1 month ago

Lead Agentic AI Engineer

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Job Summary

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade generative AI and agentic solutions in enterprise environments using Microsoft technologies. Lead end-to-end delivery from discovery through implementation, deployment, and handover, making technical architecture decisions for scalability, reliability, security, and cost. Build agentic workflows with LLMs, evaluation frameworks, and observability/governance, while supporting pre-sales and mentoring junior team members in agile delivery.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own technical solution design and architecture decisions, translating ambiguous client requirements into clear direction.
  • •Act as technical lead on projects, guiding implementation approach, engineering standards, and best practices.
  • •Design, develop, and deploy agentic AI and GenAI solutions in enterprise environments.
  • •Lead end-to-end solution delivery from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and handover.
  • •Lead implementation during delivery to ensure the solution matches the agreed architecture and quality standards while mentoring junior team members.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
  • •Hands-on experience building AI solutions and orchestrating agentic workflows, including routing, memory, and multi-agent patterns.
  • •Expertise in prompt engineering, structured outputs, and reliability patterns to optimize model performance.
  • •Ability to implement evaluation frameworks for quality, grounding, task success, safety, latency, and cost.
  • •Microsoft certification in Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate OR Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect.
Experience:Generative AIAgentic AIEnterpriseMicrosoft GenAI
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:MentorshipStakeholder managementCollaborationTechnical leadershipAgile delivery
Certifications:Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer AssociateAgentic AI Business Solutions Architect
Tech Stack:Azure AI FoundryMicrosoft Agent FrameworkCopilot StudioM365OpenAI GPTClaudeGeminiMistralPythonFastAPIFlaskDjangoDockerCI/CDAPI developmentRAG

Company Brief

Avanade
Global digital innovation and IT services company delivering Microsoft-based cloud, digital and application services. Partners with enterprises to design, build and run business solutions across cloud, data, AI, modern workplace and industry-specific transformations.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Seattle, United States
Founded: 2000
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