AI Engineer

Role Summary

As an AI Engineer at Avanade, you will design, build, and deploy next-generation AI solutions powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, and Agentic AI frameworks. Working at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and cloud platforms, you will develop intelligent applications that leverage Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, autonomous agents, enterprise knowledge systems, and modern data platforms to help clients reinvent business processes and create measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI-powered applications using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and emerging AI technologies.

• Build and orchestrate AI Agents capable of planning, reasoning, tool usage, workflow automation, and multi-agent collaboration.

• Develop Agentic AI solutions using frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangChain, CrewAI, and Microsoft Agent frameworks.

• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search, knowledge engineering, and enterprise AI patterns.

• Engineer secure and scalable AI solutions integrating enterprise data, business applications, and digital platforms.

• Deploy, monitor, evaluate, and optimize AI systems using MLOps, LLMOps, observability, and responsible AI practices.

• Collaborate with clients, architects, and cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into AI-powered outcomes.

• Contribute to innovation, reusable accelerators, and thought leadership in Generative AI and Agentic AI.

Role Summary

Avanade India is looking for a Pre-Sales Bid Manager to run our pursuits from first qualification to signed contract. This is the person who owns the bid — the plan, the calendar, the win themes, the response, the pricing inputs and the stakeholders — so that solution architects and sales leaders can focus on the client and the solution while the bid itself runs on time and to a high standard.

You will manage multiple RFPs, RFIs and proactive proposals at once, working across sales, solution architects, delivery, finance, legal, Microsoft and partner teams. We expect you to use Gen AI tools as a core part of how you work — to analyse RFPs, draft and reuse content, check compliance and produce stronger responses in less time — and to bring that way of working to the teams around you. Knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem is a significant advantage, as most of our pursuits are built on it.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end bid management for assigned pursuits — from lead qualification and bid/no-bid decision through response, orals, negotiation support and deal closure.

• Run the bid qualification process: gather opportunity intelligence, assess fit and win probability, and prepare the bid/no-bid case for leadership.

• Build and run the bid plan — timelines, owners, review gates, internal deadlines and a clear RACI across contributors.

• Analyse RFPs and RFIs in detail — requirements, evaluation criteria, commercial and contractual terms — and maintain the compliance matrix and clarification log.

• Define win themes, value propositions and differentiators with sales and solution leads, and make sure they run through every section of the response.

• Coordinate solution architects, delivery leads and subject-matter experts to produce the solution, approach, plan, team structure and assumptions on time.

• Work with finance and the deal team on price modelling — effort and resource-based pricing, fixed price, time and materials, managed services and outcome-based models — including rate cards, margin, contingency and commercial assumptions.

• Manage risk, legal and contractual review with legal, compliance and delivery assurance teams, including deviations, terms and risk registers.

• Use Gen AI tools across the bid lifecycle — RFP summarisation and requirement extraction, first-draft generation, content reuse from the proposal library, compliance checking, editing and consistency review — while owning the accuracy and quality of what goes out.

• Build and maintain a reusable proposal content library — case studies, credentials, CVs, boilerplate and approach sections — structured so both people and AI tools can use it well.

• Engage external stakeholders — clients, Microsoft account and partner teams, third-party partners and subcontractors — for clarifications, joint positioning, co-sell and partner inputs.

• Produce the final response to a high standard — structure, writing, formatting, graphics and executive summary — and run the quality reviews (pink, red and gold team or equivalent) before submission.

• Prepare the team for orals, demos and clarification meetings — storyboards, presentation decks, rehearsals and Q&A preparation.

• Support negotiation and closure — BAFO responses, commercial revisions, SOW and contract finalisation — through to handover into delivery.

• Track pursuit pipeline, status and outcomes in CRM, run win/loss reviews, and feed lessons learned back into the bid process and content library.

Buscamos uma pessoa para atuar como Consultor(a) BackEnd Sênior, contribuindo para a construção de soluções de IA Agêntica que conectam agentes inteligentes, APIs e sistemas corporativos em ambientes modernos baseados em Azure.

Nesta oportunidade, você participará de projetos inovadores de Inteligência Artificial Generativa, aplicando boas práticas de engenharia de software, arquitetura e desenvolvimento cloud-native em escala corporativa, contribuindo para a evolução de soluções digitais e plataformas inteligentes.

Faça parte da Avanade e contribua para projetos que combinam engenharia de software, cloud e Inteligência Artificial Generativa para transformar desafios complexos em soluções de impacto. Juntos fazemos o que importa. 

Saiba mais sobre alguns de nossos benefícios:

• Vale refeição ou alimentação; 
• Cartão Multibenefícios até Consultor Sênior; 
• Convênio médico e odontológico; 
• Certificações e treinamentos; 
• Seguro de Vida; 
• Previdência Privada; 
• Avababy: acompanhamento da gestação e kit para os novos pais e mães Avanade; 
• Participação nos resultados da empresa;
• Wellhub; 
• Auxílio Creche; 
• Orientador de Carreira - Mentoria de carreira; 
• Política de Birthday Off em seu aniversário; 
• Sessões de Bem-Estar; 
• Para função gerencial ou superior - Veículo corporativo, estacionamento e auxílio combustível.

Responsabilidades:

• Desenvolver agentes e serviços de apoio utilizando Python.
• Desenvolver APIs e componentes backend em Golang.
• Construir integrações entre sistemas corporativos e soluções de Inteligência Artificial.
• Participar da definição de arquitetura e do desenho técnico das aplicações.
• Desenvolver e evoluir soluções em ambientes cloud-native utilizando Azure.
• Implementar soluções containerizadas em Kubernetes.
• Apoiar a evolução contínua de plataformas e serviços voltados à Inteligência Artificial Generativa.