Forward Deployed Engineering Leader- Microsoft AI Business Solutions

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description: Crowe’s Microsoft focused delivery practice brings together advisory, outcome delivery and managed services across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, data, automation and AI. The practice is expected to double over the next two years, and this role will help shape how our approximately 20 person India engineering team operates as it grows.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader who has built strong teams, raised technical standards and improved how complex software is delivered. Deep experience with every Microsoft product is not required. What matters most is engineering judgment, people leadership, learning agility and the ability to work with platform specialists to make sound architecture and delivery decisions.

This is a player coach role. You will remain technically engaged through architecture reviews, critical design decisions, prototypes, complex delivery situations and customer conversations. You will not be expected to be the deepest specialist in every Microsoft technology, but you must be able to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and help teams reach practical, defensible decisions.

What You Will Do

• Build a high performing engineering organization with clear expectations for quality, ownership, collaboration, technical judgment and continuous improvement.
• Set and evolve engineering and architecture standards across applications, data, cloud, automation, AI, security and integration, partnering with Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Azure specialists where deep platform expertise is needed.
• Stay close to the work by reviewing critical designs, contributing to prototypes and accelerators, helping resolve complex delivery issues and participating in important client conversations.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into practical solution approaches, including deciding when AI or an agentic workflow is appropriate and when better data, a clearer process or a deterministic solution will serve the client better.
• Coach engineers, technical leads and architects; identify high potential talent; strengthen succession; influence performance decisions; and make difficult talent calls when needed.
• Improve the team’s ability to work directly with business users, IT teams, architects and senior leaders, particularly when requirements are incomplete or business processes need to change.
• Help expand the practice across Power Platform, Azure, data, automation, Copilot and agentic AI by creating an environment in which specialists can learn from one another and apply strong engineering fundamentals consistently.

What You Will Do, Continued

• Identify opportunities to automate delivery, reuse components and create Crowe intellectual property that reduces effort, improves quality and increases margin across multiple engagements.
• Establish meaningful measures for throughput, cycle time, predictability, rework, defects, escalations, reuse and team health, then drive visible improvement against them.
• Support solution shaping, estimation, technical workshops, pre sales and executive discussions, connecting technical choices to client outcomes, delivery risk and commercial value.
• Partner with practice leadership to turn repeatable delivery patterns into fixed fee or managed services offerings with clear scope, architecture, delivery playbooks and operating measures.

What Success Looks Like Within your first year, you will have:

• Raised the engineering bar. Teams are operating with clearer standards, stronger architecture discipline and greater ownership of difficult decisions.
• Strengthened the leadership bench. Technical leads and high potential engineers are vis…