Forward Deployed Engineer - Agentic AI

About the role

Accenture's Forward Deployed Engineers are the engineering core of Avanade Next. They sit inside the client from week one, turning business ambition into production reality: proving the direction in consulting with a working prototype, leading the build in studios, and configuring products for client environments. They work alongside business stakeholders, Industry Reinvention Leads, Domain Architects, Value Architects and Trust Architects, and they carry accountability from the first brief through to production.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deploy agentic AI systems end-to-end, embedded with the client and shipped from the first weeks of an engagement.
• Help clients identify where AI creates meaningful value, challenge assumptions where needed, and shape commercially viable, enterprise-scale solutions.
• In consulting, build the working prototype; in studios, move use cases to production-grade systems; in products, configure and deploy pre-built agentic products.
• Design on the Avanade Agentic Platform and the Microsoft AI stack, choosing the right mix of Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and AAP.
• Apply AI-native engineering practices: agent-assisted development, automated evaluation, reusable components, observability and production operations.
• Work with Trust Architects on evaluation, accuracy and guardrails, and with Value Architects so the solution stays connected to its measurable outcome.
• Contribute reusable components, patterns and assets to the APAC IP library and the Avanade Agentic Platform.

Required profile

• 5+ years in software or AI engineering, with production systems to point to.
• Full-stack capability across front end, APIs, data and agent orchestration, able to ship something whole.
• Experience building and evaluating agentic systems, including retrieval, tool use and failure handling.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a client environment with direct stakeholder exposure.
• Able to hold a business conversation as well as a technical one, without an intermediary.

Required skills

• Strong practical command of Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and agent orchestration; equivalent depth on another stack considered.
• Track record of turning a prototype into production at pace.