Forward Deployed Engineer

The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a senior, customer-facing practitioner who connects customer needs, measurable business outcomes, and technology solutions. Working directly within customer environments, the FDE partners with business and technical stakeholders to understand complex challenges, reduce ambiguity, make opportunities tangible, and establish a credible path from idea to production value. The FDE combines depth in a relevant specialist discipline with broad knowledge of company and partner platforms, products, accelerators, and reusable assets.

What you'll do:

• Partner with customers and stakeholders to understand business objectives, workflow challenges, desired outcomes, and the measures that will demonstrate success.
• Lead discovery, assessment, and solution-shaping activities that translate ambiguous business needs into clear, prioritised opportunities.
• Establish outcome hypotheses, success measures, key assumptions, and customer ownership before recommending material investment or progression.
• Create or direct rapid prototypes, proof points, experiments, and demonstrations that test the assumptions most critical to value and feasibility.
• Assess solution feasibility across AI, data, integration, architecture, security, privacy, Responsible AI, operational readiness, and cost considerations.
• Shape validated opportunities into production-ready work, including target workflow, architecture direction, prioritised backlog, dependencies, acceptance direction, estimates, and mobilisation requirements.

Full details and application on the official NTT DATA careers page.