Forward Deployed Engineer — Platform (AI)
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Job Description
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform, you embed directly with product development teams and customer organisations to understand real problems, design real solutions, and own the outcome. You are a force multiplier for developer velocity and platform adoption, working at the sharp end, in the code, unblocking teams, and building the patterns and tooling that make platform adoption feel effortless.
This is a high-agency role for a hands-on senior engineer who thrives in ambiguity and moves fast.
• Embed directly with product teams and customer engineering organisations to maximise developer velocity and reduce GTM timelines
• Lead technical discovery, identify the actual bottleneck, not the presenting symptom
• Along with a dedicated Architecture team, design and build production-grade solutions on the IFS Cloud platform: workflows, integrations, event-driven patterns, and data pipelines
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve platform friction points preventing teams from shipping at speed
• Champion and implement event-driven architecture patterns across product teams
• Build tooling, patterns, and reference implementations that accelerate adoption of Kairos and Nexus, reusable assets that scale your impact beyond the teams you work with directly
• Ship a working first version fast, then harden it: proper monitoring, iteration based on real usage, production quality
• Work alongside the dedicated NGA architecture team to drive the requirements for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), the core developer experience touchpoint through which product teams will consume Kairos and Nexus
• Translate product team pain points into actionable platform feedback and roadmap input
• Work directly with customer architects, IT leads, and business stakeholders, going deep in code while communicating clearly about trade-offs
• Be the connective tissue between IFS R&D; and the teams consuming the platform, your field insights shape what gets built next
Requirements
Department: Research and Development
Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level