{"id":1360537,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pearson-senior-software-engineer-forward-deployment-engineer-fde","title":"Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE)","company":{"id":34029,"name":"Pearson","domain":"pearson.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pearson","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.842,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":18000,"max_usd":43000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":9},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-10T13:55:36Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-10","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T06:40:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":20,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":20},"description":"Role: Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE)\nLocation: Bengaluru/Chennai - Hybrid (3 days in Office per week)\nAbout Pearson\nPearson is the world’s leading learning company, dedicated to helping people make progress in their lives through education. We deliver high-quality content, assessments, and digital services to learners, educators, and institutions globally. Our mission is to empower every learner to achieve their potential.\nRole Summary\nWe are seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE) who combines strong software engineering expertise with a customer-centric mindset to solve complex business problems and deliver production-ready solutions.\nThe FDE works closely with business stakeholders, product teams, architects, and engineers to understand customer needs, validate ideas, build proof-of-concepts, and deliver scalable capabilities using modern engineering practices.\nThis role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on engineering expertise, and the ability to translate business requirements into secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions.\nSuccess is measured by delivering customer value, accelerating solution delivery, and enabling successful adoption of the capabilities delivered.\nKey Responsibilities\nCustomer-Centric Solution Delivery\nWork directly with customers, business stakeholders, and product teams to understand 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software engineering best practices, coding standards, and testing approaches.\nTroubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems.\nCloud Engineering\nDesign, build, and support solutions on AWS and/or Azure.\nApply Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud automation, and deployment pipelines.\nImplement monitoring, logging, observability, and operational controls.\nDesign and contribute to scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.\nFollow cloud engineering and operational excellence practices.\nSecure-by-Design Engineering\nApply secure-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle.\nImplement secure coding practices and security controls.\nParticipate in threat modelling, vulnerability remediation, and security reviews.\nApply DevSecOps practices, including automated security validation and compliance checks.\nEnsure solutions meet enterprise security and governance standards.\nAI-Assisted Engineering\nLeverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and software quality.\nApply AI-supported approaches for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.\nContribute to agentic and automation initiatives where appropriate.\nFollow responsible AI and data governance practices.\nTechnical Leadership & Collaboration\nProvide technical leadership within project teams.\nMentor engineers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.\nLead code reviews, design reviews, and engineering discussions.\nCollaborate with architects, security teams, product teams, and cloud engineers.\nInfluence technical decisions through technical expertise, collaboration, and data-driven recommendations.\nRequired Qualifications\nCustomer Focus & Business Acumen\nStrong customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable business value.\nExperience engaging directly with customers, business stakeholders, and product teams to understand problems, validate assumptions, and shape technical 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