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A player-coach responsible for the Forward Deployed Engineer track, this role combines business understanding, solution architecture and engineering leadership to help clients move from opportunity to deployed outcome. They work alongside executives, transformation leaders and domain specialists to understand strategic priorities, identify where AI can create measurable value, and translate those opportunities into production-grade solutions.\nBeyond delivery, this role defines the AI-native engineering model for Avanade Next: small expert teams directing agent networks, accelerating delivery through reusable platforms and assets, and focusing engineering effort on solving business problems rather than writing code for its own sake. 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Current practice matters more than years.\n\nStrong command of the Microsoft AI stack; equivalent depth on another stack considered where the transfer is credible.\n\nHas set an engineering standard for a team and made it hold - including with people who did not initially agree with it.\n\nExperience assessing and hiring engineers at volume and at pace, with a defensible bar.\n\nClient-facing credibility. 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