{"id":3858608,"url":"https://alion.io/job/test-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","company":{"id":4380438,"name":"Test Triangle","domain":"testtriangle.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/testtriangle","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Zoho Recruit","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sheffield, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T07:56:42Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T21:11:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Forward Deployed Engineer- FDT(AI-fluent profile shared across all Value Streams)\nLevel /\nLocation: GCB4/5 typical - Various - co-located\nwith the FDT Tech\nSit close to\nusers (business teams, delivery pods, transformation squads) as the accountable\nengineer for rapid prototyping and delivery of end-to-end solutions. Build and\niterate production-viable prototypes and thin-slice solutions spanning UI,\nAPIs, integrations and automation-turning real user needs into working software\nquickly, safely and repeatably. This role bridges product intent and\nengineering execution, accelerating time-to-value while ensuring solutions are\nsecure, supportable and aligned to enterprise standards and platforms.\nReporting\n& stakeholders: Solid line into FDTTech\nLead / Engineering Lead. Strong day-to-day partnership with Product Owner(s),\nbusiness SMEs and delivery pod leads on scope, prioritisation and trade-offs.\nClose collaboration with platform teams (e.g., AI platform / Dataplatform), architecture, and operations/support teams to ensure production\nreadiness. Engage with tooling/platform owners to provide structured feedback\nand reusable patterns from field delivery.\nScope &\nauthority: Accountable for shaping, building and\ndelivering prototypes and end-to-end thin-slice solutions close to users,\nincluding UI, APIs, integrations and automation workflows. Owns local technical\ndecisions required to deliver outcomes at pace, within approved architecture\npatterns, engineering standards, controls and governance frameworks. Authority\nincludes recommending solution patterns, implementing integrations/automations,\nand escalating material risks, dependencies or control gaps.\nRole description\n& core accountabilities\nThis role exists because high-impact\ndelivery often requires engineers embedded with users to rapidly discover the\nright solution, prove value via prototypes, and then harden and deliver\nend-to-end capabilities into production pathways. The Forward Deployed Engineer\naccelerates learning loops while maintaining engineering discipline, ensuring\nwhat’s built can scale, be supported and be reused.\n·User-adjacent delivery & rapid prototyping - Work directly with users\nto understand workflows and pain points; translate needs into prototypes, demos\nand thin-slice implementations that validate value quickly and reduce delivery\nrisk.\n· End-to-end solution build (UI/API/integration/automation) - Design and implement\ncomplete solutions across front end, back end, integrations and automation,\nusing approved platforms and patterns to deliver measurable outcomes.\n·Solution shaping & technical options - Propose pragmatic\ntechnical approaches, MVP scopes and delivery sequencing; balance speed with\nsecurity, resilience, and maintainability.\n·Integration &automation enablement - Build and configure\nintegrations (systems/APIs/events) and automate operational processes\n(workflows, controls, reporting) to remove manual steps and improve\nreliability.\n·Engineering standards & controls adherence - Ensure solutions meet\nengineering standards, secure coding practices, testing, and control\nrequirements; raise risks early and embed controls by design.\n·Production readiness & handover - Drive operational\nreadiness including logging/monitoring, runbooks, support handover, and\nnon-functional considerations; ensure solutions can be operated safely at\nscale.\n·Reuse and platform alignment - Prefer reuse over bespoke;\ncontribute reusable components, patterns, templates and reference\nimplementations back to engineering/platform communities.\n· Feedback loop to platforms - Capture field constraints and needs;\nconvert into actionable platform/tooling feedback (user stories, defects,\nenhancements, benefits) to improve enterprise capabilities.\n·Stakeholder management close to delivery - Communicate progress,\ntrade-offs, and risks clearly to business and technology stakeholders; keep\nmomentum and decisions unblocked.\nSuccess Profile - criticality for this role\nCriterion\nCriticality\nExperience\nDelivering end-to-end solutions (UI,\nAPIs, integrations, automation)\nEssential\nWorking in user-adjacent / ambiguous\ndelivery environments\nEssential\nSecure engineering, testing and\nproduction readiness in enterprise contexts\nEssential\nIntegration delivery and dependency\nmanagement\nEssential\nRapid prototyping and iterative delivery\nwith users\nEssential\nCapability\nCustomer / Client Centricity\nEssential\nEngineering discipline & quality\nassurance\nEssential\nLeading simplification and automation at\nsolution level\nEssential\nJudgment and decision-making\nEssential\nInfluencing and stakeholder alignment\nEssential\nChampioning innovation through rapid\niteration\nEssential\nStrategic technical thinking\nDesirable\nInspirational Leadership\nDesirable\nTalent stewardship\nDesirable\nPersonal Attributes\nStamina & Resilience\nEssential\nCollaboration & influence\nEssential\nLeadership Span\nEssential\nCalibration rationale: This is a hands-on,\nuser-adjacent engineering role optimised for speed-to-value and end-to-end\ndelivery. Core capabilities around engineering discipline, customer centricity,\nintegration delivery and pragmatic decision-making are Essential. Broader\nstrategic leadership and talent stewardship are Desirable, as the role\ncontributes to scaling patterns and mentoring but does not typically own\nenterprise-wide strategy.\nExperience - Required\n·Proven experience delivering end-to-end software solutions, covering UI, APIs/services, and integration with upstream/downstream systems.\n·Strong ability to rapidly prototype, iterate with users, and then harden solutions towards production readiness.\n·Experience building integrations and automation (e.g., workflows, orchestration, scripting, CI/CD automation) in enterprise environments.\n·Working knowledge of secure engineering practices, testing, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and operational handover.\n·Experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to shape MVP scope and manage trade-offs.\n·Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments with shifting requirements, while maintaining delivery discipline and transparency.\nExperience - Preferred\n·Experience delivering within regulated/controlled environments (risk, audit, security, data handling) and navigating governance pragmatically.\n·Experience with platform-based delivery and reuse (shared services, APIs, integration platforms, enterprise tooling), including knowing when to reuse vs build.\n·Experience with modern UI frameworks, API design, event-driven or integration patterns, and automation/orchestration tooling.\n·Experience working in Value Streams / product-led delivery, transformation pods, or forward-deployed/embedded engineering models.\n·Experience contributing reusable accelerators (templates, reference apps, integration patterns) and coaching other engineers.\nBehavioural skills\n·User-obsessed builder; stays close to users, validates fast, and focuses on measurable outcomes over perfect paperwork.\n·Pragmatic engineering discipline; moves quickly without skipping fundamentals (security, testing, operability, controls).\n·End-to-end ownership mindset; takes accountability from discovery through build, release and handover; doesn’t throw work “over the wall”.\n·Bias for simplification and automation; eliminates manual steps and complexity, automates repeatable tasks wherever sensible.\n·Clear communicator under pressure; explains options, trade-offs and risks in plain language; keeps stakeholders aligned.\n·Collaborative and inclusive; works well across roles and backgrounds, welcomes different perspectives to get to better solutions faster.\n·Proactive risk management; identifies integration, dependency, data and control risks early; escalates with options, not surprises.\nDerailers / red flags\n·Builds prototypes that cannot be industrialised, creating rework or hidden technical debt.\n·Ignores security, controls or operational needs in the name of speed; pushes fragile solutions into production pathways.\n·Over-builds or over-engineers instead of delivering thin-slice value and iterating.\n·Creates bespoke point solutions where reusable platforms/patterns exist.\n·Fails to manage dependencies or communicate risks early, causing delivery churn and stakeholder surprises.\n·Focuses on delivery completion without ensuring supportability, monitoring and clear ownership.\nYear 1 outcomes (scale & embed)\nConsistent delivery of user-validated prototypes that convert into\nproduction-viable thin-slice solutions with clear value realised.\nMultiple end-to-end solutions delivered\n(UI/API/integration/automation) that measurably improve user workflows, reduce\nmanual effort, or increase reliability.\nDemonstrable reduction in cycle time from idea to working software\nthrough embedded delivery and rapid iteration loops.\nReusable components, patterns or templates contributed back to the\nValue Stream/platform communities, reducing duplication across teams.\nStrong production readiness discipline established (testing,\nsecurity, observability, runbooks, handover), with reduced post-release\nincidents and rework.\nClear, structured feedback provided to platform/tooling teams,\ninfluencing roadmap improvements based on field delivery realities.\nRecognised as a dependable embedded engineering partner who unblocks\ndelivery and raises overall engineering maturity.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9333,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T07:56:42Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.516,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:2","agency","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T23:39:51Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/test-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/test-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T23:39:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3452,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4380438},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4380438"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftest-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftest-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftest-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/test-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftest-triangle-forward-deployed-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3858608}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"testtriangle.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3858608},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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