{"id":3993291,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-financial-services-forward-deployed-engineer-technology-consulting-engineering-manager","title":"Financial Services - Forward Deployed Engineer - Technology Consulting - Engineering- Manager","company":{"id":2859,"name":"EY","domain":"ey.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ey-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Grandview Heights, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":166900,"max":278100,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":278100},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Arize Phoenix","optional":false},{"name":"AutoGen","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"CrewAI","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"DeepEval","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"DSPy","optional":false},{"name":"Embeddings","optional":false},{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Google ADK","optional":false},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"LangSmith","optional":false},{"name":"LlamaIndex","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"LoRA","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"PEFT","optional":false},{"name":"pgvector","optional":false},{"name":"Pinecone","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"QLoRA","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Kernel","optional":false},{"name":"Structured Outputs","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vertex AI","optional":false},{"name":"Weaviate","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Transformers","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T00:16:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T00:16:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Location: New York, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Grandview Heights, Hoboken, and Philadelphia\nAt EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.\nWe’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Manager to help clients solve complex business challenges through technology. This role sits at the intersection of consulting, engineering, and product delivery, working directly with business and technology stakeholders to design, build, and deploy solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.\nThe ideal candidate combines technical depth with strong business acumen. They can navigate ambiguity, translate business priorities into scalable technology solutions, and lead delivery from concept through production while identifying opportunities to expand client value and grow the business.\nKey Responsibilities\nPartner with client stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities.\nLead discovery, requirements definition, solution design, and implementation activities.\nDesign and deliver solutions across AI, cloud, data, digital, and platform engineering domains.\nTranslate business requirements into scalable architectures, delivery plans, and engineering workstreams.\nOwn solution delivery end-to-end, from problem definition through deployment and adoption.\nLead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, architecture, product, and business functions.\nMeasure and track business outcomes, adoption, and value realization.\nBuild trusted relationships with client stakeholders and delivery teams.\nIdentify adjacent business opportunities and shape follow-on initiatives that create additional client value.\nSupport account growth through solution development, pursuit support, and client engagement.\nForward Deployed Engineering Requirements\nDemonstrated experience leading complex, client-facing technology delivery, including direct work with business and technology stakeholders in ambiguous environments.\nAbility to connect business objectives to architecture, engineering plans, delivery decisions, adoption, and measurable outcomes.\nExperience leading multiple workstreams or multidisciplinary teams and coordinating dependencies across client and delivery organizations.\nStrong technical foundation in modern software engineering, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, AI/GenAI, and enterprise integration.\nExperience guiding the design and delivery of production AI/ML or generative AI solutions, including LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, evaluation, and operational readiness.\nWorking knowledge of application frameworks such as Google ADK, LangChain, or LangGraph, and the judgment to select an approach appropriate to the use case and client environment.\nExperience with APIs, data services, event-driven integration, and asynchronous workflows; familiarity with Apache Kafka or comparable messaging platforms.\nAbility to guide engineering teams using Python, Java, TypeScript, or comparable languages, and practices such as source control, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD.\nExperience supporting deployment and troubleshooting in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid client environments, including security, integration, and data-readiness considerations.\nStrong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.\nCommercial awareness, including experience contributing to proposals, account planning, solution shaping, or identifying follow-on work.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nAI and Engineering Skills\nGenAI and AI Solution Delivery\nAbility to assess business challenges and shape AI solutions with clear value hypotheses, feasibility criteria, and appropriate human oversight.\nExperience guiding the design and delivery of production LLM applications, including end-to-end flows from data ingestion through model output delivery (for example, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI).\nUnderstanding of retrieval-augmented systems, including knowledge-source integration, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, grounding, and quality trade-offs (for example, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Azure AI Search, pgvector, Pinecone, or Weaviate).\nUnderstanding of prompt design, structured outputs, and systematic evaluation and iteration (for example, DSPy or PromptFlow).\nAbility to assess agentic patterns, tool use, orchestration, memory, and workflow boundaries, and to guide teams toward reliable designs suited to the problem.\nAgentic Systems, Quality, and Operations\nExperience guiding agentic systems and multi-step workflows, including orchestration, tool integration, state management, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling (for example, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or comparable frameworks).\nAbility to establish evaluation approaches that cover functional correctness, output quality, safety, and business-defined measures (for example, RAGAS, DeepEval, or Arize Phoenix).\nUnderstanding of production support needs for AI systems, including tracing, observability, degradation detection, behavioral drift, and incident response.\nAbility to guide decisions on model selection, inference performance, latency, throughput, and cost.\nSoftware, Cloud, and Integration Engineering\nStrong working knowledge of software architecture and engineering practices for modular, testable, secure, and maintainable systems.\nAbility to review designs involving APIs, service boundaries, event-driven patterns, data flows, and enterprise integrations.\nFamiliarity with containerization and cloud deployment patterns (for example, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, or AWS ECS).\nExperience guiding teams that build with structured and unstructured data, including data quality, readiness, and validation for AI workloads.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent, and the controls needed for their responsible use.\nDemonstrated Experience in the Following Areas Will Be a Plus\nExperience delivering AI solutions in financial services or another regulated industry.\nExperience establishing model observability and evaluation practices (for example, LangSmith, Arize, Datadog, or Azure Monitor).\nFamiliarity with fine-tuning approaches such as LoRA, QLoRA, or PEFT, and the ability to assess when fine-tuning is appropriate.\nExperience with AI security risks such as prompt injection, adversarial inputs, data leakage, and auditability.\nExperience applying responsible AI practices, including fairness evaluation, explainability, human-in-the-loop controls, and governance.\nExperience with data pipelines for AI workloads, including ingestion, transformation, and quality validation.\nExperience with cloud AI platforms such as Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, or Google Vertex AI.\nExperience using AI-assisted software engineering tools to improve development and review workflows.\nRequired Qualifications:\nRecommended experience profile: 8+ years in software engineering, architecture, technology consulting, or related roles, including 3+ years leading teams or complex delivery. Equivalent combinations of experience may be considered.\nExperience delivering complex technology solutions in client-facing environments.\nStrong understanding of modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, AI/GenAI, and enterprise integration.\nAbility to connect technology execution with business objectives and measurable outcomes.\nExperience leading cross-functional teams and driving delivery across multiple workstreams.\nStrong stakeholder management, communication, and workshop facilitation skills.\nAbility to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.\nCommercial mindset with the ability to identify and develop growth opportunities within client accounts.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nA successful Forward Deployed Engineer is equally comfortable in a business stakeholder workshop, a solution design workshop, or an engineering review. They turn business challenges into scalable solutions, deliver tangible outcomes, and create opportunities for continued growth.\nBusiness challenges are translated into practical, scalable technology solutions.\nSolutions are delivered successfully and achieve intended business outcomes.\nStrong relationships are established with client stakeholders and delivery teams.\nNew opportunities are identified and converted into expanded client value and engagement growth.\nTeams operate effectively across consulting, architecture, engineering, and delivery disciplines.\nWhat we offer you\nAt EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. Learn more at ey.com/us/careers.\nThe salary range for this job is:New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices - $166,900 to $278,100\nBay Area California offices - $173,800 to $289,700\nAll other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento - $139,100 to $254,900\n\nIndividual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.\nAre you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.\nTo make the most of your application experience, please limit yourself to two applications within a six-month period.\nEY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis.\nFor those living in California, please click here for additional information.\nAt EY, our values set the foundation for how we work and the behaviors we expect of our people. Any misrepresentation or falsification of information or lack of integrity at any point in the recruiting process may result in withdrawal of your candidacy, revocation of an offer or immediate termination of employment.\nEY | Building a better working world\nEY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.\nEnabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.\nEY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.\nAll in to shape the future with confidence.\nEY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.\nEY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. 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