# Strategist Lead, Forward Deployed

Job Description Sits within a newly acquired startup division building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions. The Forward Deployed Engagement Manager brings together pre-sales, delivery, and customer success - owning the bank engagement end to end from discovery through delivery, adoption, and expansion. Pairing directly with Forward Deployed Engineers, this role translates ambiguous mandates into scoped delivery, orchestrates priorities, and builds executive trust to deliver successful deployments. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Client Relationship & Discovery: Own the large financial institution relationship: Primary point of contact - equal parts deployment strategist, technical program manager, and trusted advisor. Build long-term relationships with bank engineering, architecture, and business leadership. Problem solving: Embed with bank teams to understand current-state pain points and modernization priorities. Identify workloads where the Platform creates the most value. Pair with FDEs: Work hand in hand with Forward Deployed Engineers to translate ambiguous mandates into clearly scoped technical work. Program Delivery & Expansion: Program and

- **Id**: 4108312
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fis-strategist-lead-forward-deployed>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T22:54:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:54:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5473
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 4808
- **Name**: FIS
- **Domain**: fisglobal.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fis>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 95
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.642
- **Repost share**: 0.032
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 116730
- **Max**: 198430
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 198430

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T22:54:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:48:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 198430
- **Is top pay**: no

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