Forward Deployed Engineer

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At Synechron we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechrons progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence Consulting Digital Cloud & DevOps Data and Software Engineering servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models Digital Underwriting mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20 years our company has been honored with multiple employer awards recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about Synechron has a global workforce of 17000 and has 58 offices in 22 countries within key global markets.

Role Summary

Synechrin is looking for Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to design and ship Agentic AI applications across our Corporate Functions Finance HR Legal Procurement Marketing and Sales operations. You will be embedded directly with the people who own the process taking a real business problem from idea to a working production-grade solution in weeks rather than quarters.

This is hands-on engineering. You will typically be the sole technical seat in a small pod alongside a process owner and a business sponsor building applications that run multi-step workflows hold state across many users and act directly on enterprise systems of record. That is materially harder than a chatbot and it is the point of the role.

You will build on Microsoft Fabric as enterprise data platform and on Azure AI services and you will help set the technical patterns the wider team reuses.

Additional Information*

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other accordance with law the base salary for this role if filled within PiscatawayNJ is$120-135 k/year & benefits (see below).

What You Will Do

• Design build and harden agentic AI applications that read from and write to enterprise systems of record grounded on Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI services.
• Embed with a Corporate Function team as the technical lead of a small multi-functional pod moving from problem to prototype to production at pace.
• Run a tight iterative build cycle: align on the outcome prototype gather feedback refine and finalise typically within one to two weeks per loop.
• Own the quality of what you ship end to end security reliability scalability observability and safe governed write-back to source systems.
• Make the right build call for the problem: low-code and agent-builder platforms where they fit custom code where they do not.
• Ensure the data behind each solution is AI-ready modelled governed and documented in Fabric with lineage and access control that will stand up to audit.
• Set and document the reusable technical patterns components and guardrails the team applies across every engagement.
• Become credible in a new business domain quickly and challenge requirements constructively to land on the right solution rather than the requested one.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience building agentic or multi-agent AI systems that run in production and serve real users working systems not demonstrations.
• Strong command of state management concurrency idempotency and authorisation for systems that act on a system of record on behalf of many users.
• Substantial software development experience in at least one language such as Python TypeScript/JavaScript C# or Java you can architect write review and debug production code.
• Hands-on integration experience with enterprise APIs and data platforms including designing safe read and write paths and handling failure gracefully.
• Working knowledge of modern AI application patterns retrieval-augmented generation prompt and context design agent orchestration tool use and protocols such as MCP.
• Strong hands-on command of a major cloud platform ideally Azure able to independently provision configure deploy secure and operate cloud resources owning an application end to end rather than only consuming pre-built services.
• Demonstrated ability to prototype rapidly using AI-assisted development and fast iteration to turn a loosely defined idea into something usable in days.
• The judgement and autonomy of a senior individual contributor able to make sound architecture and feasibility calls alone under time pressure and explain them to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse Warehouse Data Factory Real-Time Intelligence Power BI and OneLake or a comparable enterprise data platform.
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio Power Platform Azure AI Foundry or agent-builder platforms such as Lyzr or Moveworks.
• Integration experience with major Corporate Function systems of record for example Oracle HCM SAP Workday Salesforce Dynamics 365 or ServiceNow.
• Familiarity with enterprise governance concerns: identity and access management data classification and residency responsible AI policy and evaluation of model output.
• A background that blends software engineering with consulting business transformation or a Corporate Function discipline.
• Experience delivering in short iterative cycles directly with non-technical business stakeholders.

How We Will Assess You

• A practical build exercise: take an ambiguous business problem to a working agentic prototype and explain your design trade-offs.
• A systems design discussion covering state concurrency authorisation and safe write-back to a system of record.
• A stakeholder conversation testing how you scope challenge and communicate with a non-technical business owner.

We offer:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package.
• A multinational organization with 60 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays).
• Maternity & paternity leave plans.
• A comprehensive insurance plan including medical dental vision life insurance and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region).
• Retirement savings plans.
• A higher education certification policy.
• Commuter benefits (varies by region).
• Extensive training opportunities focused on skills substantive knowledge and personal development.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the worlds leading tier-one banks financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A flat and approachable organization.
• A truly diverse fun-loving and global work culture.

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

• Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.
• All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the worlds leading tier-one banks financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A flat and approachable organization.
• A truly diverse fun-loving and global work culture.

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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