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We help organisations unlock the full potential of Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, Data and AI technologies to modernise operations, accelerate innovation and deliver meaningful business outcomes.\nIn 2026, HSO achieved Microsoft Frontier Partner status, recognising our advanced capabilities across Microsoft Cloud and AI and our ability to help customers move beyond AI experimentation into secure, governed, enterprise scale production.\nWith operations across Europe, North America and Asia, we combine industry knowledge, technical excellence and a practical, people first approach to transformation.\nAs we continue to expand our AI capabilities, we’re building a new generation of customer facing talent to help organisations identify where AI can create genuine business value and turn that potential into measurable outcomes.\nAbout the Role\nAI is creating significant opportunities for organisations, but identifying where it can genuinely transform a business is often harder than building the technology itself.\nThat is where the Deployment Strategist comes in.\nDeployment Strategists combine elements of management consulting, product management, business analysis and technology strategy. Their primary responsibility is to understand a customer’s business deeply enough to identify where the greatest value can be created, where the most important problems exist, and where AI and agentic technologies can realistically help solve them.\nYou’ll work closely with senior customer stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, operating models, processes and performance challenges before translating them into focused opportunities that can be delivered and measured.\nYou will also need a strong understanding of the Microsoft technology platform and its evolving AI stack. This is not a hands on engineering role, but you should understand how capabilities across Microsoft Azure, Data, AI, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform and Dynamics 365 can be applied to business problems and how those technologies fit together.\nThis technical understanding will allow you to identify realistic opportunities, challenge assumptions, work credibly with technical teams and help customers make informed choices about where Microsoft technologies can create the greatest value.\nDeployment Strategists work side by side with Forward Deployed Engineers. The Deployment Strategist owns the why and the what, identifying the opportunity, defining the desired outcome and establishing how success will be measured. The FDE owns the how, designing and building the production solution.\nTogether, you will take opportunities from discovery through to production and demonstrate the value they create.\nA critical part of the role is proving impact. You’ll establish clear baselines and success measures at the outset, remain closely connected to customer stakeholders throughout delivery, and demonstrate how the solution is affecting KPIs, operational performance or other measurable business outcomes.\nThe role does not end at first deployment. Deployment Strategists drive an ongoing cycle of identify, build, prove and expand, using each successful outcome to uncover the next opportunity and deepen the value HSO delivers to the customer.\nWhat You’ll Do\nUnderstand the Customer and Identify Value\nBuild a deep understanding of how a customer’s business operates, including its strategy, operating model, processes, systems, performance drivers and constraints.\nWork with senior executives and business leaders to identify where the greatest opportunities for improvement or transformation exist.\nAssess where AI, agents, automation, data and Microsoft platform capabilities can realistically create meaningful business value rather than applying technology for its own sake.\nUnderstand the customer’s existing Microsoft technology landscape and identify where capabilities across Azure, Data, AI, Fabric, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Copilot can support transformation.\nIdentify opportunities across the organisation and sequence them according to strategic importance, potential value, feasibility and risk.\nDevelop a clear view of where HSO can create sustained value for the customer over time.\nDefine Outcomes and Prioritise Opportunities\nTranslate complex or ambiguous business problems into clear hypotheses, outcomes and measurable success criteria.\nShape opportunities into focused initiatives that can be delivered and proven quickly.\nDefine the smallest valuable solution that will demonstrate whether an opportunity is worth scaling.\nBuild robust business cases and value models that establish expected benefits, investment and measures of success.\nOwn the business scope before engineering begins, ensuring everyone understands what is being built, why it matters and how its impact will be measured.\nPrioritise opportunities and product backlogs according to customer value rather than technical novelty.\nBuild Trusted Executive Relationships\nDevelop trusted relationships with senior business, technology and operational stakeholders.\nFacilitate strategic conversations with C suite executives and, where appropriate, board level stakeholders.\nPresent opportunities, recommendations and results clearly and credibly to senior audiences.\nChallenge assumptions constructively and help customers make informed decisions where priorities or requirements are unclear.\nExplain Microsoft platform and AI capabilities in clear business terms, helping senior stakeholders understand what is realistically possible without requiring them to navigate the technical detail.\nRemain accountable for ensuring the engagement stays focused on the intended business outcomes.\nPartner with Forward Deployed Engineers\nWork closely with FDEs and platform engineers to translate customer outcomes into practical solutions.\nProvide the business context, priorities and decision making framework engineering teams need to deliver effectively.\nApply a strong understanding of the Microsoft platform to help shape credible solution options and ensure proposed approaches align with available capabilities.\nContinuously prioritise scope and backlog according to customer value, learning and emerging evidence.\nStress test how people, processes and technology will work together once the solution is deployed.\nEnsure adoption, operating model change, training and feedback loops are considered alongside the technical build.\nMake effective use of existing HSO and Microsoft assets and accelerators wherever they can reduce time to value.\nMeasure and Prove Value\nEstablish clear baselines, KPIs and value measures at the beginning of an engagement.\nTrack performance throughout delivery and after deployment to understand whether the intended outcomes are being achieved.\nTranslate technical delivery into a clear account of business impact for executive sponsors and operational stakeholders.\nCommunicate transparently where expected outcomes have not yet been achieved and help identify what needs to change.\nBuild a continuous, evidence based view of the value HSO is creating for the customer.\nUse proven outcomes to identify and shape the next high value opportunity.\nBuild Reusable HSO Capability\nTurn lessons from customer engagements into reusable frameworks, methodologies, value models and delivery playbooks.\nShare practical learnings across HSO regions, practices and industry teams.\nContribute to the development of HSO’s AI, Frontier and Forward Deployed capabilities.\nHelp develop future Deployment Strategists and strengthen the discipline as the practice grows.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe’re looking for people who combine strong commercial and strategic judgement with a strong understanding of the Microsoft platform and modern AI technologies.\nYou’ll ideally bring:\nSignificant experience in management consulting, product management, business analysis, technology strategy, solution architecture or senior client facing delivery.\nA track record of leading complex discovery, transformation or value based engagements with large organisations.\nStrong commercial judgement and the ability to identify where technology can materially improve business performance.\nExperience translating strategic or ambiguous business challenges into clearly defined initiatives and measurable outcomes.\nStrong product instincts, including defining MVPs, shaping requirements and prioritising according to business value.\nExperience developing business cases, ROI models, benefits cases or other value frameworks.\nStrong knowledge of the Microsoft technology platform, including Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and the Microsoft AI ecosystem.\nStrong understanding of Microsoft’s AI stack, including capabilities such as Azure AI, Copilot, Copilot Studio, agents, automation and workflow orchestration.\nThe ability to understand how Microsoft technologies fit together and where they can realistically be applied to customer business problems.\nEnough technical understanding to work credibly with engineers, challenge assumptions and understand architectural or delivery trade offs.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate confidently between business and technical audiences.\nStrong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior executives.\nComfort operating in environments where requirements are incomplete, priorities move quickly and the answer is not obvious.\nIntellectual curiosity and the willingness to challenge surface level assumptions to understand what is really driving a business problem.\nDeep hands on engineering expertise is not required. You will not be expected to build or configure solutions yourself. More important is a strong understanding of the Microsoft platform and AI stack, what the technology can realistically achieve, and the ability to work effectively with engineers to turn that potential into measurable business value.\nNice to Have\nPrevious experience in a Deployment Strategist, product strategy, technology strategy or similar role within an AI, technology or enterprise software business.\nBackground in management consulting, particularly operating model design, digital transformation or technology enabled change.\nExperience working within the Microsoft ecosystem or with Microsoft Azure, Data, AI, Dynamics 365 or Power Platform solutions.\nDeep industry experience in Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services, Public Sector or Professional Services.\nExperience working as a Product Owner or alongside engineering teams in an agile environment.\nExperience delivering AI, automation or data led transformation programmes.\nAn established network of senior relationships within one or more of HSO’s target industries.\nExperience turning successful customer engagements into repeatable propositions, methodologies or commercial opportunities.\nWhy Join HSO?\nMany organisations understand that AI could transform their business. Far fewer know where to start, which opportunities genuinely matter or how to prove that an AI investment has created value.\nAs a Deployment Strategist at HSO, you’ll help answer those questions.\nYou’ll sit at the centre of strategic customer engagements, understanding how businesses operate, identifying where AI can make the greatest difference, applying your understanding of the Microsoft platform to shape viable opportunities, partnering with Forward Deployed Engineers to turn those opportunities into production solutions and demonstrating the results back to the customer.\nYou’ll have the opportunity to:\nWork directly with senior leaders on some of their most important business challenges.\nShape AI initiatives from the original business problem rather than inheriting predefined technical requirements.\nApply Microsoft’s evolving AI, Data and...","description_format":"text","description_chars":13061,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Government"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T17:01:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":42,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.417,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":63,"reasons":["conf:0","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-08T05:49:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hso-deployment-strategist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hso-deployment-strategist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-09T00:42:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1011,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3989,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":174124},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=174124"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhso-deployment-strategist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhso-deployment-strategist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhso-deployment-strategist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hso-deployment-strategist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhso-deployment-strategist"}]}