Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We work as trusted business partners and always strive to deliver the most value and highest return on investment for our clients. We are highly trained business professionals with a strong understanding of clients' needs. We work closely with the leading staffing trade associations, training, and research organizations to ensure we are knowledgeable of the latest industry trends and technologies.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of forward-deployed engineering engagements across business and platform domains, ensuring successful delivery of measurable outcomes.

• Partner directly with executive business and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities, conduct technical discovery, and translate complex requirements into scalable production-ready solutions.

• Define and enhance forward deployment methodologies, engagement standards, delivery playbooks, and transition frameworks.

• Drive a reuse-first engineering culture by creating reusable patterns, reference architectures, and platform contributions.

• Establish and maintain engineering quality standards, including secure-by-design practices, observability, testability, and operational readiness.

• Define scalable processes for transitioning solutions from prototype through production and long-term ownership.

• Collaborate with architecture, security, compliance, and senior technology leadership teams to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and governance.

• Identify platform improvement opportunities and influence future engineering roadmaps.

• Mentor, develop, and scale high-performing engineering teams while fostering technical excellence.

• Stay current with emerging technologies in AI, platform engineering, and regulated delivery environments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (advanced degree preferred).

• 14+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience.

• Proven experience owning production systems and leading large-scale enterprise delivery initiatives.

• Strong expertise designing and building backend services, APIs, and scalable distributed systems.

• Experience working across architecture, platform, data, and application layers.

• Ability to operate effectively in highly regulated industries such as financial services.

AI & Modern Technology Experience

The ideal candidate should have experience with modern AI application architectures and production-grade implementations, including:

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Semantic Search

• Agent-Based Systems

• Generative AI Solutions

• AI-Powered Workflow Automation

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in one or more of the following technologies:

•             Java

•             Python

•             JavaScript / TypeScript

• API design and systems integration

• Secure software engineering practices

• Modern application frameworks

• Containerization technologies

• Production-grade AI platforms and solutions

Preferred Experience

• Building or scaling Forward Deployment, Solutions Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Customer Engineering organizations.

• Delivering AI, data, workflow, or platform-driven solutions in regulated environments.

• Creating engineering standards, Centers of Excellence (CoEs), operational frameworks, and reusable infrastructure patterns.

• Strong systems-thinking and architectural decision-making capabilities.

Leadership Requirements

• Exceptional communication and executive stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and matrixed organizations without direct authority.

• Strong strategic thinking, product mindset, and business acumen.

• Experience balancing speed, risk, governance, and long-term scalability.

• Strong execution discipline with a focus on documentation, operational excellence, and measurable outcomes.

If you have experience leading large-scale engineering initiatives, building AI-enabled solutions, driving platform strategy, and partnering with executive stakeholders, I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this role with you further.

Please reply with your updated resume, contact information, and a convenient time to connect. I would be happy to provide additional details regarding the team, interview process, and compensation structure.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to speaking with you.

Additional Information

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