Forward Deployment Engineer - Managing Business Architect
About The Position
We are seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) - the tip of the spear for deploying AI-native solutions into live client environments. Working at the intersection of engineering, product, and client engagement, you’ll turn ambiguous business problems into working, Echo-powered solutions that drive measurable outcomes. FDEs aren’t traditional developers - they’re builders, problem solvers, and operators who embed with client teams to rapidly design, deploy, and scale AI-driven capabilities across real workflows, then stay to make them stick. Business Architects define and structure the business strategy, capabilities, services, governance, organizational domains and key business processes. They align goals and objectives with products, processes, services, partners and suppliers to optimise the enterprise organisation, its capabilities and initiatives. The key focus is on the e2e value delivery, the business operations and business motivations linking the enterprise networks together. Business Architects define and ensure a comprehensive and coherent view across business domains, from strategy to execution. They model and create organisational value capabilities, structures and maps to optimise transformation and change, operational value delivery and a rationalised and sustainable IT. Managing Business Architect Design, deliver and manage complete business architecture solutions. Demonstrate leadership of topics in the architect community and show a passion for technology and business acumen. Work as a stream lead at CIO or CTO level for an internal or external client. Lead Capgemini operations relating to market development and/or service delivery excellence. Are seen as a role model in their local community. Certification: preferably Capgemini Architects certification level 2 or above, IAF and TOGAF 9 or equivalent.
Requirements
- Minimum- Bachelors Degree
- 9-12+ years building and shipping software, including time in client-facing or otherwise ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Strong engineering foundation: Python, APIs, and at least one major cloud platform.
- Hands-on experience with AI/LLMs, automation, or agent-based systems.
- Ability to break ambiguous problems into structured, deployable solutions with a strong bias to action, and systems thinking across end-to-end workflows.
- Strong client-facing communication, with the ability to engage business and technology stakeholders simultaneously in high-ambiguity environments.
Nice To Haves
- experience integrating with enterprise systems such as SAP or Salesforce; familiarity with data pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
- prior consulting, forward-deployed, or startup founding/early-engineer experience; exposure to agent orchestration, RAG, or evaluation and observability tooling.
Responsibilities
- Embed within client teams to understand workflows, pain points, and value levers, and translate ambiguous business problems into deployable AI-native solutions.
- Own end-to-end implementation from concept to prototype to production in live client environments.
- Configure, extend, and deploy Echo agents, workflows, and orchestration layers, integrating across enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, data platforms, and APIs).
- Design workflows that combine human and digital labor - optimizing task allocation, throughput, cost efficiency, and experience outcomes.
- Develop POCs and MVPs in days or weeks and iterate in real time with client stakeholders to drive adoption.
- Quantify business impact and support the transition from pilot to scaled enterprise rollout, establishing reusable patterns, accelerators, and deployment playbooks.
Benefits
- 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
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
