Avanade's AI Engineer role is responsible for developing scalable AI solutions aligned to a business strategy and benefits case.  The role will be to work as part of a team to impact real world problems by delivering technical AI work. To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about Data & AI, a continuous learner, and a strong team player.

Come join us: 

As an AI Engineer, you will help clients understand and extract insight and value from their data using Microsoft AI technologies. Working as part of a team, you will be involved in all phases of AI projects including question/use case formulation, design, research, build, and testing. This role will explore and understand data to build advanced AI solutions.

What you'll do:

• Customer readiness and onboarding, nominations review, and use case vetting processes

• Proof of Concept solution design and prototyping with AI technology, with a primary focus on AI capabilities like OCR, NLP, reasoning with LLMs, AI agents, and AI Search with traditional and vector DBs and a secondary focus on machine learning

• Produce solutions for clients working with both structured and unstructured data applying these AI capabilities

• Conduct customer satisfaction surveys and share key learnings, run customer engagement reports and project retrospective reports as well as provide summary for customer & logging product bugs with engineering team

• Provide facility tours, manage demo showcase, and process improvements

• Communicate insights to help steer business strategy and decision-making

Avanade’s US AI Workforce technical consultants enable people and organizations to leverage the power of Microsoft M365, O365, Power Platform, SharePoint, Viva, and Copilot Studio. Our Engineering teams help organizations build, transform, and leverage these platforms, and our Optimization teams build custom applications and solutions to extend their capabilities.

Avanade’s AI Workfroce Intern Program was launched to identify, attract and develop our next generation of technical talents and consulting practitioners.

As part of our team, you’ll work with our world-class technical consultants to receive:

Distinctive Experiences

We have unparalleled and boundaryless experiences to establish your career with opportunities you won’t find elsewhere.

Limitless Learning

We are curious, embrace challenges, and leverage our limitless opportunities to learn, lead, and innovate with the best to build our collective expertise.

Meaningful Work

We are driven by purpose and powered by technology to do amazing work that changes things for the better.

With all this, Avanade Interns experience our unique culture of collaboration and growth mindset, while building professional networks and gaining real-world experience.

About the Role:

As an AI Workforce intern you will work with our Engineers and Developers to:

• Develop infrastructure, platforms, and automations to create new and more effective "ways of working".
• Develop AI-driven solutions using Copilot Studio and Agentic AI to create automations and agents that transform the “ways of working”.
• Help define and establish IT operations, processes, procedures, toolsets, and automations to manage and maintain client solutions.
• Support change management efforts as directed by senior team members and change specialists.

Job Description:

[MULTIPLE POSITIONS] Avanade Inc. seeks a Senior Enterprise Tech Architect in Houston, TX. As part of the leadership team in a growing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) practice, this role oversees digital transformation initiatives that enhance customer experience, optimize costs, and drive business outcomes. Responsibilities include managing Digital Marketing client engagements, leading all phases of the software development lifecycle—estimation, design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, and support. The role also involves leading the design, architecture, development, testing, and deployment of AEM Web and Mobile solutions, collaborating with clients, designers, product owners, developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts, and end users to build a cutting-edge Digital Platform using Adobe’s Digital Marketing Product Suite. Ensuring engineering excellence, the role promotes Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and comprehensive documentation. Additionally, it requires implementing strategies based on business needs, long-term objectives, and creative design, while providing technical guidance to AEM developers on best practices for both front-end and back-end development. Hands-on coding is required when necessary, alongside architectural input on server environment configuration, clustering, caching, CDN usage, and security. Leading project teams of 10+ AEM developers across onsite and remote global locations, the role also contributes to collateral development for efficient AEM project implementation. Periodic travel to client sites (domestic) is expected up to 80% of the time. Must live within reasonable commuting distance of Houston, TX. Compensation at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The offered salary range for this specific position in Houston, TX is $149,718 – $ 179,300 per year. Any multi-state or general compensation ranges displayed below do not apply to this position.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted on [DATE] and open for at least 30 days.

Avanade offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: www.avanade.com/en-us/career/benefits  

As a Data Protection Consultant, you’ll lead the delivery of data protection and data governance solutions for Avanade clients. You’ll bring hands-on technical expertise, own project outcomes, and guide clients and junior team members through complex security and compliance initiatives.

What you’ll do

· Lead or co-lead client engagements focused on data protection and data governance.

· Design and implement Microsoft Purview solutions (e.g., sensitivity labeling strategies, advanced DLP policies/integrations, Purview DSPM, data lifecycle/retention controls).

· Perform threat mapping and gap analysis across structured, unstructured, cloud, and on-premises data.

· Facilitate client workshops and stakeholder discussions to translate requirements into scalable, secure Microsoft-based solutions.

· Own solution design decisions, configuration, and technical documentation.

· Provide technical mentorship to Analysts and Senior Analysts; lead workstreams or small teams.

· Contribute to estimations, delivery planning, and risk management.

· Support solutioning efforts, proposals, and internal capability development.

· Build awareness and controls for emerging AI and agentic AI security considerations (e.g., Security Copilot).