Position : FDE (Forward Deployed AI Engineer)

Role : Level -6 & 7 (Manager & Senior Manager)

Role Description :

This is not a consulting role. It is not a project delivery role. It is not a research position. A Forward Deployed AI Engineer is a production engineer who works embedded inside a client's enterprise, shoulder to shoulder with their teams, to make complex AI platforms work in real, messy organizational environments. You own outcomes: time-to-value, adoption, reliability, and scalability. Not delivery milestones. Outcomes.

The market is beginning to understand what leading technology companies have demonstrated: AI products fail not because the models are weak but because deployment is broken. The gap between a successful AI pilot and an AI capability that scales is bridged by engineers who can translate platform capability into measurable business value inside a real enterprise environment. That is this role.

Forward Deployed AI Engineers form the execution spine of our Reinvention Deployment Engineering pods. We are building the largest FDE capability in the services industry. The engineers who join at this stage will define what the role looks like at scale and will have access to the hardest enterprise AI problems in the market across every industry.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead enterprise AI platform deployments across complex multi-stakeholder client environments - Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or Palantir - owning the full programme from architecture through adoption

- Own programme-level delivery outcomes : time-to-value, reliability, adoption velocity, and scalability across multiple concurrent workstreams, with commercial metrics attached

- Lead rapid experimentation at pace : drive ambiguous business problems to working production systems in days or weeks across complex enterprise environments

- Architect and govern enterprise AI solutions across the full technology stack : identity, data, security, governance, platform layer, and multi-system workflow integration at programme scale

- Shape AI reinvention strategy for client CTO, CFO, and CISO : build value architecture, ROI backlogs, use case prioritisation frameworks, and multi-year AI adoption roadmaps

- Define and publish reusable reinvention blueprints, patterns, and accelerators that scale across multiple client engagements and grow the FDE practice

- Lead architecture design sessions, executive workshops, and code-with sessions with client engineering and C-suite leadership teams

- Codify delivery learnings, failure patterns, and engineering standards that shape the FDE practice and enable the next generation of forward deployed engineers

Required Skillset :

- Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing Agentic AI and RAG architectures that drive measurable improvements in enterprise decision-making.

- Proven ability to architect and maintain complex microservices on major cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and system resilience.

- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate technical AI concepts to non-

technical executive leadership and influence strategic decision-making.

- Strong leadership capabilities, evidenced by a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams and navigating the nuances of client-facing consulting engagements.

- A strategic mindset that balances immediate technical delivery with long-term AI roadmap planning, ensuring solutions remain adaptable to evolving market needs.