Forward Deployed Engineer

Overview

In this role you partner with business users to convert friction into AI and data solutions that reach production. You will be part of a firm-wide AI transformation, embedding with desks to shape problems and deliver reusable, scalable capabilities. You’ll own end-to-end delivery from first conversation to live running, contributing to firm-wide investment capabilities and governance. This is a hands-on, cross-functional engineering position with a strong emphasis on real impact and collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Generous holiday policies
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Volunteer time
• Professional development support
• Parental leave and family services

Responsibilities

• Embed with the business by sitting with users to understand workflows and friction
• Partner with AI Enablement Partners to surface and deliver demand
• Design, build, and productionise complex AI solutions from prototype to live running
• Own architecture decisions keeping security, scalability, and enterprise alignment
• Build investment capability on Nexus and expose it firm-wide via Accio and Nexus
• Source data through APIs and enterprise systems and curate views for business use
• Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability; help with governance checkpoints
• Collaborate across AI function and ensure solutions meet security and governance standards

Key requirements

• Four+ years in a technical, business-facing engineering role
• Strong Python and SQL with a track record of production-grade applications
• Production experience with LLMs including prompt/context engineering, agent development, evaluation, and deployment at scale
• Hands-on experience building agentic capability (MCP servers, tools, or connectors)
• Experience building data pipelines from APIs and enterprise systems and modeling data into business-facing views
• Working knowledge of Azure or a major cloud with CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code
• Excellent stakeholder skills and ability to operate with ambiguity in a regulated environment
• High agency and genuine business problem focus
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Comfort with ambiguity and high initiative
• Ability to run discovery with business users and translate into technical work
• Python
• SQL
• LLMs (prompting, evaluation, deployment)

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