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You will combine business acumen, deep technical expertise and a pragmatic consulting approach to help clients move from ambition to measurable outcomes at speed.\nThis is a hands-on, client-facing role at the intersection of AI strategy, solution architecture and engineering. You will lead discovery, create and prioritise AI opportunity backlogs, establish the governance and structures needed to support responsible adoption, educate client teams, and architect, build and demonstrate production-minded prototypes using the latest Microsoft technologies.\nRole Responsibilities\nClient Discovery and Opportunity Shaping\nEmbed with client teams to understand their organisation, business processes, technology landscape and strategic priorities.\nLead discovery, ideation and design workshops with business and technology stakeholders.\nIdentify and assess opportunities where AI, agents and automation can deliver meaningful business value.\nTranslate ambiguous business challenges into clear use cases, solution hypotheses and actionable technical requirements.\nCreate, structure and prioritise AI opportunity backlogs, balancing value, feasibility, risk and time to impact.\nDevelop pragmatic roadmaps, estimates and recommendations that help clients move from 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and ways of working that support responsible experimentation and scale.\nEducate client stakeholders and delivery teams on agentic AI capabilities, limitations, patterns and good engineering practices.\nFacilitate solution demonstrations and playback sessions, using feedback to refine priorities and accelerate adoption.\nCoach client teams so that knowledge and capability are transferred throughout the engagement.\nBuild trusted relationships across business and technology teams, communicating technical concepts, trade-offs and value in clear language.\nAvanade Capability and Growth\nSupport pre-sales activities through discovery, solution shaping, estimation, demonstrations and proof-of-concept development.\nContribute reusable assets, patterns, accelerators and lessons learned to Avanade's Data & AI communities.\nStay current with Microsoft's AI roadmap and emerging engineering approaches, translating developments into practical client applications.\nCollaborate with architects, engineers, industry specialists and alliance teams to bring the best of Avanade and Microsoft to clients.\nMentor colleagues and promote a culture of curiosity, pace, quality and accountable delivery.\n.\nRequired Skills and Experience\nHands-on experience architecting and delivering AI-powered solutions using Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI.\nStrong experience building agents and conversational or workflow-based solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio.\nExperience with Microsoft Power Platform, including integration and automation capabilities relevant to enterprise AI solutions.\nProven ability to understand business processes, identify opportunities and turn loosely defined problems into working technical solutions.\nStrong software engineering and rapid prototyping capability, with the confidence to architect and build solutions independently.\nExperience leading client workshops, technical discovery sessions, demonstrations and stakeholder playbacks.\nAbility to create and 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services.\nKnowledge of cloud-native engineering, APIs, CI/CD, observability and production support practices.\nExperience establishing AI governance, operating models, delivery structures or Centres of Excellence.\nExperience creating reusable frameworks, accelerators and solution patterns.\nMicrosoft Frontier Transformation Engineer (FTE) badge or equivalent recognised credential.\nCompletion of Microsoft High Velocity Engineering training or equivalent experience applying high-velocity engineering practices.\nMicrosoft certifications in AI, Azure or Power Platform are desirable.\nEnjoy your career\nSome of the best things about working at Avanade:\nOpportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year (20 times)\nA minimum of 80 hours per year dedicated to learning, certifications, and professional development\nAccess to global Data & AI communities, accelerators, and subject matter experts\nThe chance to work on complex, high-impact initiatives across AI, data 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