Forward Deployed Engineer
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Description
You will work directly with customer engineering and operations groups to understand complex environments and deliver production-ready solutions. You will prototype, configure, deploy, integrate, test, and support enterprise software, including in on-premise, network-isolated, and air-gapped environments. You will also create reusable deployment assets and convert implementation feedback into product improvements.
Responsibilities
- Prototype minimum viable solutions and proof of concepts with AI-assisted development
- Support technical pre-sales RFPs RFIs security questionnaires and solution scoping
- Own technical delivery from project kickoff through production deployment and post-launch support
- Understand financial institutions' business processes operational workflows and technical environments
- Configure deploy and optimize enterprise products
- Plan implementations and execute configuration testing UAT deployment and post-go-live support
- Define implementation success criteria and milestones
- Deliver administrator and end-user enablement sessions
- Integrate enterprise products with core banking and capital-markets systems
- Deploy into on-premise network-isolated and air-gapped environments
- Produce security and audit evidence for compliance and penetration testing
- Design integrations using integration interfaces and data pipeline technologies
- Troubleshoot technical configuration and integration challenges
- Develop reusable deployment assets playbooks documentation and best practices
- Resolve product issues and improve implementation quality
- Facilitate technical workshops architecture discussions and implementation planning
- Advise customer stakeholders throughout implementations
- Build relationships across customer technology operations security and engineering functions
- Turn implementation learnings and customer feedback into code
- Identify repeatable deployment patterns and standardize implementation methods
- Contribute implementation insights to product roadmaps
- Improve deployment frameworks and time-to-production
Requirements
- Four to eight years of experience in software engineering forward deployed engineering solutions engineering professional services technical consulting implementation engineering or enterprise software delivery
- Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Python Go or Rust
- Experience implementing and deploying enterprise software in complex customer environments
- Understanding of protocol intermediation enterprise integration patterns cloud technologies security fundamentals and modern software architectures
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers during implementation and deployment projects
- Strong analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Ability to collaborate across product management engineering enterprise sales and consulting functions
- Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work independently while managing multiple customer engagements
- Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations across Europe
- Excellent English skills
- Financial institution experience preferred
- Bitcoin blockchain digital assets tokenization or fintech experience preferred
- Experience integrating enterprise software through APIs and modern integration frameworks preferred
- Cloud containerized deployment or infrastructure automation knowledge preferred
- Layer-2 and digital asset infrastructure familiarity preferred
- Experience contributing implementation feedback to engineering roadmaps preferred
