Forward Deployed Engineer Managing Consultant

Capgemini • Chicago, IL

2d • $127,500 - $249,350 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Capgemini Invent, our Data Driven Transformation (DDT) team makes AI work at scale by combining data science and engineering with business consulting. We build context-driven analytics and GenAI/agentic systems that reflect how decisions and work actually happen—grounded in semantic layers, strong data foundations, and governance embedded in decision flows. With a builder-advisor (“forward deployed”) mindset, DDT delivers production-ready impact across operations and customer domains, redefining what enterprise AI advisory looks like in practice.

Requirements

• 7+ years in embedded, forward-deployed, or enterprise software engineering (consulting preferred)
• Proven experience leading a small engineering team within a client environment
• Deep hands-on expertise with Palantir Foundry or equivalent enterprise AI/data platforms
• Strong client relationship skills with Director- or VP-level engineering and operations leaders
• Experience delivering governed AI solutions, data pipelines, and platform enablement

Nice To Haves

• Strong AI literacy, including core AI and generative AI concepts, and understand how these capabilities apply to enterprise transformation.
• Able to identify and support AI-enabled opportunities that improve business outcomes and delivery effectiveness.
• Experience working in AI-augmented ways of working to enhance research, analysis, and solution development.
• Collaborate effectively across strategy, technology, data, and design to enable AI-driven solutions.
• Solid understanding of responsible AI principles such as ethics, privacy, security, and governance.
• Demonstrate curiosity and a continuous learning mindset around emerging AI capabilities and their practical application in client environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead embedded engineering teams and own delivery quality across workstreams
• Own technical relationships with Director- and VP-level client stakeholders
• Establish engineering standards, documentation practices, and delivery rhythms
• Ensure solutions are production-ready, governed, and transferable to client ownership
• Identify expansion opportunities based on on-the-ground delivery insights

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
• Company paid holidays
• Personal Days
• Sick Leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed