Forward Deployed Engineer Lead

Avanade
Kuala Lumpur
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Client-facing leadership","Engineering leadership","Problem-solving","Standards-setting","Re-skilling"]

Lead the Forward Deployed Engineer track by translating client business priorities into AI-enabled, production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans. Define and evolve AI-native engineering practices for agent-assisted development, evaluation, observability, and operational readiness. Publish reference architectures and capability standards using Microsoft AI tooling, deploy personally on the most complex mandates, and build the hiring, assessment, and career pathway for scaling the track across APAC.

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Avanade
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Forward Deployed Engineer Lead

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Job Summary

Lead the Forward Deployed Engineer track by translating client business priorities into AI-enabled, production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans. Define and evolve AI-native engineering practices for agent-assisted development, evaluation, observability, and operational readiness. Publish reference architectures and capability standards using Microsoft AI tooling, deploy personally on the most complex mandates, and build the hiring, assessment, and career pathway for scaling the track across APAC.
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with clients and Avanade leadership to understand priorities and translate them into AI-enabled solution concepts and outcomes.
  • •Bridge strategy and execution by converting business cases and transformation roadmaps into production-ready solution architectures and delivery plans.
  • •Own and continuously improve the engineering standard for the FDE track, including testing, evaluation, production readiness, and operational support requirements.
  • •Define reference architectures and decision frameworks to choose the right combination of Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Avanade Agentic Platform, and Microsoft capabilities.
  • •Deploy personally on the most complex, strategic, at-risk, or reference-critical mandates and contribute reusable patterns and assets back to the platform.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in software or AI engineering with senior/lead accountability for production systems and ongoing maintenance.
  • •Deep, hands-on agentic engineering experience (orchestration, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, observability, and failure handling).
  • •Strong command of the Microsoft AI stack (or equivalent depth on another stack where transfer is credible).
  • •Experience setting engineering standards for a team and making them stick, including with people who initially disagreed.
  • •Experience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and at pace with a defensible bar.
Experience:8+ yearsAI engineeringAgentic engineeringEnterprise delivery
Skills:Client-facing leadershipEngineering leadershipProblem-solvingStandards-settingRe-skilling
Tech Stack:Copilot StudioAzure AI FoundryAvanade Agentic PlatformMicrosoft

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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