Software Engineering Unit Manager

Capgemini • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

Capgemini’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work alongside client business and technology teams to discover and frame problems, define solutions, and remain accountable from build through value realization. The FDE independently owns a customer use case from discovery through production deployment and handoff, coordinating delivery-team contributions and partnering with client stakeholders, product teams, and engineering teams. The role combines technical execution with business and domain understanding to shape, build, and industrialize solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.

The FDE leads discovery and solution design, owns solution architecture and hands-on work on the critical path, and delivers prototypes, proofs of value, and production-ready increments. The role applies AI and generative AI in usable products and workflows with appropriate human oversight, verifies generated output, and ensures production readiness across reliability, security, compliance, observability, supportability, and operational sustainability. The FDE also drives adoption, prepares solutions for scale and handoff, and enables associated operating-model changes.

The stated career path is to become a Principal ODE and ultimately a recognized industry leader, such as a VP Distinguished Engineer or VP Business Partner.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and problem framing with client stakeholders, distinguishing the underlying problem from the stated request.
• Define success measures, value hypotheses, and target outcomes before development begins.
• Shape solution direction and make decisions regarding capability changes, workflow redesign, platforms, architecture, and the role of AI in the operating model.
• Own solution architecture and build the critical path hands-on, setting engineering, business, and delivery standards for the workstream.
• Deliver rapid prototypes, proofs of value, and production-ready increments to demonstrate value early and reduce decision risk.
• Guide AI tooling and teams in producing production-quality work, and verify outputs before release.
• Validate generated output for engineering and business risks, including reliability, security, performance, compliance, regulatory requirements, operational feasibility, and business outcomes.
• Design and implement usable AI-powered workflows with appropriate human oversight.
• Own specifications and acceptance criteria for the pod and its tools, and sign off that delivered work matches the specification.
• Build production readiness into solutions from the outset, including reliability, security, compliance, observability, supportability, and operational sustainability.
• Balance technical excellence, business value, user adoption, and regulatory obligations in solution design.
• Turn prototypes into reusable assets, playbooks, patterns, and accelerators, and ensure clean handoff to delivery or managed services.
• Share client learning across the wider FDE capability.
• Ensure solutions are documented, supportable, measurable, and ready to scale beyond the initial deployment.
• Own outcomes through adoption, lead client demonstrations and pilots, and drive usage with real users.
• Coordinate subject-matter experts and support transitions into delivery and managed services.
• Advise client managers and directors as a trusted partner across business and technology domains.
• Design and enable required operating-model changes, including process redesign, capability mapping, workflow transformation, organizational impact, and technology adoption.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including vacation of 12–25 days depending on employee grade, company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
• Retirement savings plans, such as 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• The role may be eligible for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

What This Job Offers

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