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Role: Intermediate Forward Deployed Engineer
The Intermediate Forward Deployed Engineer is an experienced technical contributor within cross functional FDE PODs embedded with clients. The role turns business priorities into production ready cloud and AI solutions, with a primary focus on Agentic AI Enterprise Adoption and selected modernization engagements across primarily AWS and NTT DATA platforms.
Job Description Summary:
The primary objective of this role is to provide hands on engineering and technical ownership of defined AI use cases, solution components and workstreams from discovery through first agentic production deployment and handover. The Intermediate Forward Deployed Engineer combines software and product engineering, cloud architecture, AI agent orchestration, data integration and business understanding to deliver working solutions against real enterprise constraints. They operate with a good degree of autonomy on assigned areas, while working with Senior FDEs and other technical contributors on complex or cross cutting decisions.
The Intermediate Forward Deployed Engineer serves as a technical bridge between customer needs, business outcomes and technology solutions. They engage directly with client business and technical stakeholders and contribute as an experienced member of the FDE POD, taking ownership of defined technical workstreams without carrying overall POD leadership. They work with the FDE Center of Excellence, hyperscalers, AI Studio and other NTT DATA product teams to apply company and partner platforms, accelerators and reusable assets, and to capture field learning that can improve future delivery. They may also support opportunity qualification, solution shaping and transition to operate and scale teams.
The Intermediate Forward Deployed Engineer is expected to have solid hands on experience building and deploying cloud, data or AI systems in enterprise environments. The profile combines strong engineering capability with practical solution architecture, client communication and the judgement required to work effectively in embedded delivery teams.
Job Description:
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Act as an experienced technical contributor within an FDE POD, taking ownership of defined solution components or technical workstreams from problem discovery and design through implementation, first production deployment and handover.
Translate client priorities into clear technical requirements and contribute to engagement scope, named business outcomes, production access needs and measurable success criteria.
Design solution components and contribute to the wider solution architecture across data, integration, domain modeling, agent orchestration, evaluation, operations, security and governance.
Build and integrate APIs, data pipelines, MCP servers, ontologies, knowledge bases, agent workflows, reusable skills and operational tooling, working directly with client and NTT DATA engineering teams.
Apply the agreed evaluation and production quality bar, including real case testing, regression gates, observability, human approval points and operational readiness.
Apply security, responsible AI, identity, audit, data residency, sovereignty and regulatory requirements within assigned solution components and escalate cross cutting risks when required.
Contribute to a rapid delivery cadence through frequent working increments, disciplined engineering practices and timely escalation of access, dependency and quality risks.
Support and, where appropriate, facilitate technical workshops and working sessions, and communicate solution design, tradeoffs, delivery progress and technical findings…