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.

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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.

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).

This position is open to candidates located in the locations listed on the job requisition. Candidates are welcome to work remotely or out of one of our regional offices. Travel is required.

About the role

As a Data Protection Manager, 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).