Lead Agentic AI Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Lead Agentic AI Engineerto join our team and drive the design, development, and deployment of production-grade generative AI and agentic solutions using Microsoft technologies.

This role is ideal for a technically strong engineer who has hands-on experience building AI solutions, orchestrating agentic workflows, implementing evaluation frameworks, and taking solutions into secure, scalable, and cost-optimised production environments using platforms such asAzure AI Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Copilot Studio.
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Key Responsibilities:

•    Take ownership oftechnical solution design and architecture decisions, bringing clarity from ambiguous client requirements
•    Act as thetechnical lead on projects, guiding implementation approach, engineering standards, and best practices
•    Design, develop, and deploy Agentic AI and GenAI solutions in enterprise environments
•    Lead end-to-end solution delivery, from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, and handover
•    Make cleartechnical design decisions that support scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
•    Lead and mentor junior team members, helping them deliver high-quality outcomes and grow their technical capability
•    Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams inagile environments
•    Managetechnical stakeholders and client conversations, translating business needs into practical AI solution designs
•    Support or leadpre-sales activities, including solution shaping, technical estimations, demos, proposals, and client discussions
•   Lead implementation during delivery, ensuring the proposed solution is built to the agreed architecture and quality standards

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Core technical skills

•    Hands-on experience with LLMssuch as OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini or Mistral
•    Experience designing and building agentic AI solutions, including tool use, workflow orchestration, routing, memory, and multi-agent patterns
•    Expertise inprompt engineering, structured outputs, and reliability patterns to optimise model performance
•    Ability to implementevaluation frameworks for quality, grounding, task success, safety, latency, and cost
•    Experience deploying AI solutions into production with focus oncost optimisation, scalability, observability, security, and governance
•    Experienced in usingMicrosoft GenAI ecosystem, including M365, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft Agent Framework
•    Proficient inPython and production-quality code practices
•    Strong understanding ofsoftware engineering principles, architecture patterns, and delivery best practices
•    Experience withAPI development using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django
•    Knowledge ofDocker, containerised deployments, CI/CD, and cloud-native delivery patterns

What will make you stand out

•    Experience building, deploying, and evaluatingmulti-agent AI solutions, agent orchestration patterns, RAG architectures, and enterprise integrations
•    Knowledge ofagent communication protocols and interoperability patterns, such as MCP and A2A
•    Ability to balance innovation with practical delivery considerations, including risk, cost, security, and production readiness
•    Confidence contributing topre-saleswhile also being able to lead implementation during delivery
•    Curiosity and motivation to stay current with the latest advancements inGenAI, agentic AI, and AI engineering frameworks

Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree inComputer Science, Data Science, or a related field
•    Microsoft certified i.e.Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer AssociateORAgentic AI Business Solutions Architect

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

• Collaborate with some of the brightest “Microsoft minds”

• Build your expertise, solve problems, learn, and develop

Find out more about some of our benefitshere.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit ourInclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking   • Experimenting courageously   • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice   • Encouraging boldness   • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client   • Prioritizing what matters    • Acting as one

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