Forward Deployed Engineer

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

Forward Deployed Engineering role focuses on establishing enterprise architecture across data,
applications and technology along with an AI augmented delivery model to translate the enterprise
architecture into working product for the business value stream. It will aim at orchestration across
product managers, designers and developers to shape up the production-ready products that
embeds Gen AI and Agentic AI capabilities for bigger business value as well as meeting security best
practices (e.g. OWASP), compliance, performance and ethical standards for Operational, Digital,
Analytical and AI use cases.
Forward Deployed Engineering will lay down the AI based building blocks of the solution with apt
digital worker and context engineering-based development to augment the Application Engineers.
As AI and agent-based delivery reshape software development, Forward Deployed Engineer
increasingly collaborates with digital workers and intelligent agents and performs much bigger roles
combining industry / domain expertise, application, integration, data and platform architectures.
Responsibilities in this role include:
• Define the overall architecture, agents and delivery model:
o Collaborate with the line of business of the client engagements and translate to a
component model.
o Define data architecture, application architecture and technology architecture.
o Define and build the agents and assistants to be leveraged to build the product
based on the architecture defined.
• Define the assets to be adopted during the SDLC lifecycle.
• Integration across various AI orchestration of Dev cycle:
o Define the workflow of agents to augment the lifecycle development.
o Integrate agents and assistants across various SDLC activities . Leverage the relevant
assets
o Work with full stack engineers to define data models, high level design for
implementation.
o Define AI based static code coverage and unit test coverage.
• Define AI based testing cycle:
o Define the AI based tools for testing cycle.
• Define a deployment model:
o Define a deployment model and a DevOps pipeline
o Define AI augmentation across the model

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Define the enterprise architecture for digitalisation of business, with understanding
across business value stream, supplementing the same with a data model, to build
applications to cater to the value stream.
• Define the AI augmented engine across SDLC lifecycle. Adopt AI solution across
enterprise. Agent harness development and adoptions across the life cycle.
• Define standards of context engineering for code development.
• Implement Enterprise architecture defined by an Forward Deployed Architect (FDA)
on a business application development on technology, data source and AI Agent
adoption. Define ethical AI adoption in client enterprise.
• Document usage of relevant assets on ADDs
• Define a CI/CD pipeline for deployment of code across the applications.
• Build an IaC based approach for deployment
• Define adoption of ICA assistants, vibe coding tactics and Gen AI tools across phases
of SDLC life cycle.
• Work with enterprise integration architects on system integration and also the
integration of agents across the enterprise.
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Your employeeESEunice SohNumberHRP0088113Employment start date2015-11-16LocationSingapore (SG151889)Functional ManagerSHARON YEOBusiness phone+65-6418-2069Email eunices@sg.ibm.com Eunice's teamDepartment833 (833)Manager SHARON YEO