AI Workforce Solution Evolution Lead- US

Role Overview

The Associate Director, AI Workforce Solution Evolution Lead is accountable for the technical validity, credibility, and competitiveness of the solutions the Solution Area brings to market. The role also ensures these solutions are integrated into broader, multi-Solution-Area offerings and supports the Practices aligned to the Solution Area.

With a global perspective, the Solution Evolution Lead defines “what good looks like” by establishing the technical direction, standards, and roadmap needed to keep the portfolio current, scalable, deliverable, and competitive.

Portfolio Management curates the offerings, Asset Engineering safeguards the intellectual property, and Solution Evolution serves as the architect. This role is critical because value in the AI era is increasingly realized across Solution Areas, and many of our largest opportunities require integrated solutions. Early involvement in solution design helps ensure the portfolio can be sold and delivered at scale.

This role offers location flexibility across the United States, provided candidates are within a commutable distance of an Avanade office.

What You’ll Do

Define Technical Direction and Solution Integrity

• Establish the technical direction, standards, and roadmap for the Solution Area, applying them consistently across markets where appropriate.
• Continuously assess the solution portfolio for market relevance, technical viability, scalability, and competitiveness.
• Identify and capture reference architectures and repeatable solution patterns that address common and emerging client needs.
• Align the solution backlog and roadmap with Solution Area demand and development priorities, while identifying and managing technical debt.

Guide Portfolio Investment and Lifecycle Decisions

• Represent the Solution Area at the 3i’s Board and provide input to Portfolio Council on solution value, credibility, and deliverability.
• Provide technical validation and architecture assurance throughout the Identify, Incubate, and Industrialize process.
• Evaluate asset and capability performance using pipeline, win/loss, market, and other relevant data.
• Recommend whether assets and capabilities should be advanced, sustained, redirected, or retired.

Design and Mobilize Integrated Offerings

• Represent the Solution Area in cross-Solution-Area offering design and joint solution development.
• Ensure the Solution Area’s assets, intellectual property, and capabilities are incorporated into integrated offerings from the outset.
• Recommend solution and delivery approaches for approved offerings and mobilize the teams responsible for developing them.
• Expand the reach of Solution Area solutions through integrated plays and attach motions.

Connect Solutions to Market and Ecosystem Demand

• Translate market, sales, client, and Practice insights into technical recommendations for the portfolio.
• Partner with Portfolio Management and go-to-market leaders to incorporate assets, intellectual property, and products into solution and go-to-market strategies.
• Work with Practices and Communities of Practice to identify product and service opportunities aligned with Microsoft product roadmaps.
• Collaborate across the Microsoft, Accenture, and partner ecosystems to support co-innovation, elevate best practices, and inform build-or-buy decisions.

Scale Reuse and Improve Commercial Performance

• Identify assets and capabilities that can be reused and scaled across markets.
• Lead approved strategic initiatives to incubate and advance reusable solutions while reducing unnecessary duplication.
• Support priority pursuits with subject matter expertise, reusable bid content, and competitive positioning.
• Help improve win rates while reducing the effort and risk associated with developing bids.

Strengthen Technical Credibility and Market Influence

• Advance Avanade’s technical reputation through external speaking, thought leadership, and market engagement.
• Build credibility with clients, Microsoft, Accenture, and the broader partner ecosystem.
• Serve as a leading contributor to Microsoft and Accenture co-innovation initiatives.

Avanade is the perfect stage to bring your thoughtful, energetic, and curious approach to technology consulting.

Our talented Azure Platform Community consists of some of the most dedicated and passionate professionals in the field, and we plan to grow! As an Azure Infrastructure Manager at Avanade, you will focus on Azure cloud technologies and work with the latest Microsoft technologies on exciting client projects as part of our Solutioning Team. You’ll contribute to proposing, designing, and implementing innovative and valuable solutions that meet our customers’ needs. This opportunity is made more purposeful through our focus on positive outcomes for how humans work, interact, and live. If you like pushing boundaries by outsmarting challenges, read on!

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in both presales and delivery activities, applying your project experience and technical expertise to contribute to new proposals and customer solutions.

• Collaborate as part of a cross-technical team with different Avanade Portugal areas, contributing innovative solutions and applying your expertise to solve complex, cross-technology challenges.

• Apply your expertise in solution design to propose and support Azure-native solutions that provide value and meet customer needs.

• Provide technical and consulting expertise to advise clients on appropriate governance approaches, ensure platform stability, and support evolving business requirements.

• Work on projects that utilize the full breadth of the Azure platform across both IaaS and PaaS, leveraging Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment practices.

• Design and implement Azure solutions across the Azure platform, including subscriptions and management, networking, security, compute, storage, and operations, for major enterprise projects.

• Apply knowledge of the latest Azure infrastructure technologies, including Open Source on Azure, Kubernetes, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, and Azure Migrate, as well as Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

• Solve complex technical challenges through infrastructure solutions spanning cloud and on-premises environments, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, cloud technologies, automation, scripting, and DevOps.

• Contribute to knowledge sharing and the continuous improvement of Azure Platform practices, technical approaches, and solution delivery within the community

Mergulhe no mundo da Engenharia de IA, onde a análise e o design de soluções transformam desafios em oportunidades, colaborando com especialistas para criar inovações impactantes em ambientes de nuvem.

Como parte da equipe de Engenharia de IA, você estará no centro da inovação, transformando requisitos de negócios em soluções práticas. Seu papel será entender problemas complexos, projetar soluções eficazes e colaborar com equipes multidisciplinares para implementar essas soluções. Junte-se a nós e faça parte de um time que valoriza cada indivíduo e promove um ambiente de trabalho inclusivo. Together we do what matters.

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:

• Analisar e definir os requisitos do cliente.
• Propor e projetar soluções inovadoras.
• Estimar o esforço necessário para entregar soluções.
• Colaborar com cientistas de dados e engenheiros.
• Utilizar plataformas de análise e frameworks de IA.
• Desenvolver soluções em ambientes de nuvem Azure.
• Articular o valor das soluções para os clientes.

Sammanfattning

Vill du hjälpa till att forma framtiden för AI-drivet arbete? På Avanade får du möjlighet att designa, bygga och implementera banbrytande generativ AI och agentisk AI-lösningar med hjälp av den senaste Microsoft-teknologin.  Vi söker en innovativ och praktisk AI-ingenjör till vår Data & AI-verksamhet. I denna roll kommer du att arbeta tillsammans med kunder och multidisciplinära team för att utveckla intelligenta lösningar som löser verkliga affärsutmaningar med hjälp av Large Language Models (LLM), AI-agenter, automation och Microsoft AI-plattformar. 

 
Den idealiska kandidaten kombinerar starka grundkunskaper inom mjukvaruutveckling och/eller data engineering med en passion för framväxande AI-teknologier och en vilja att ständigt lära, experimentera och innovera. Du kommer att bli en del av en livlig gemenskap av AI- och data-specialister, arkitekter, ingenjörer och konsulter som hjälper organisationer att förändra hur de arbetar genom generativ AI.

Om rollen

Som AI-Engineer kommer du att designa och utveckla AI-drivna applikationer, copilot och agentiska lösningar i Microsofts ekosystem. Du kommer att arbeta nära kunder för att förstå affärsutmaningar, identifiera möjligheter för AI-adoption och översätta krav till säkra, skalbara och produktionsklara lösningar. 

 
Rollen kombinerar praktisk ingenjörskonst, lösningsdesign, snabb prototypframställning, kundnära konsultation och kontinuerlig innovation. Du kommer att bidra genom hela lösningens livscykel, från discovery och proof of concept till implementering, utvärdering och optimering. 

Huvudsakliga arbetsuppgifter: 

• Designa, utveckla och distribuera AI-drivna applikationer och agentiska lösningar med hjälp av Microsoft AI-teknologier. 

• Bygga intelligenta agenter, copilots och arbetsflödesautomationslösningar med hjälp av Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry och relaterade tjänster. 

• Utveckla API:er, integrationer och backend-tjänster med hjälp av Python och moderna applikationsramverk. 

• Skapa proof of concepts och prototyper för att visa framväxande AI-förmågor och affärsvärde. 

• Implementera prompt engineering, orkestrering, grounding och retrieval tekniker för att förbättra AI:s prestanda och tillförlitlighet. 

•  Bygga och optimera Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-lösningar och kunskapsåtervinning-lösningar. 

•  Bidra till AI-lösningsarkitektur, teknisk design, utveckling, testning, implementering och dokumentation. 

•  Delta i kundworkshops, discovery-sessioner, demonstrationer och tekniska diskussioner med både affärs- och tekniska intressenter. 

• Tillämpa principer för ansvarsfull AI, styrningskontroller och utvärderingsramverk genom hela AI-utvecklingslivscykeln. 

•  Samarbeta med arkitekter, ingenjörer, konsulter, analytiker och kundteam inom agila leveransmiljöer. 

• Håll dig uppdaterad med framväxande AI-teknologier, verktyg, ramverk och branschtrender, och dela kunskap inom den bredare verksamheten.