Introduction

Forward Deployed Engineer focuses on establishing enterprise architecture across data, applications and technology along with an AI augmented delivery model to translate the enterprise architecture into working product for the business value stream. It aims at orchestration across product managers, designers and developers to shape up the production-ready products that embeds Gen AI and Agentic AI capabilities for bigger business value as well as meeting security best practices (e.g. OWASP), compliance, performance and ethical standards for Operational, Digital, Analytical and AI use cases. Forward Deployed Engineer will lay down the AI based building blocks of the solution with apt digital worker and context engineering-based development to augment the Application Engineers. As AI and agent-based delivery reshape software development, AI Forward Deployed Engineer increasingly collaborates with digital workers and intelligent agents and performs much bigger roles combining industry / domain expertise, application, integration, data and platform architectures.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Define the overall architecture, agents and delivery model

• Collaborate with the line of business of the client engagements and translate to a component model.
• Define data architecture, application architecture and technology architecture.
• Define and build the agents and assistants to be leveraged to build the product based on the architecture defined.
• Define the assets to be adopted during the SDLC lifecycle.

Integration across various AI orchestration of Dev cycle

• Define the workflow of agents to augment the lifecycle development.
• Integrate agents and assistants across various SDLC activities. Leverage the relevant assets
• Work with full stack engineers to define data models, high level design for implementation.
• Define AI based static code coverage and unit test coverage.

Define AI based testing cycle

Define a deployment model

• Define a deployment model and a devops pipeline
• Define AI augmentation across the model

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills

• Define the enterprise architecture for digitalization of business, with understanding across business value stream, supplementing the same with a data model, to build applications to cater to the value stream.
• Define the AI augmented engine across SDLC lifecycle. Adopt AI solution across enterprise. AI coding engine adoptions across the life cycle.
• Define standards of context engineering for code development.
• Take Architectural decisions on a business application development on technology, data source and AI Agent adoption. Define ethical AI adoption in client enterprise.
• Familiarity with MCP servers, tool connectors, and LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Experience building agentic AI applications and LLM-powered workflows.
• Document usage of relevant assets on ADDs
• Define a CICD pipeline for deployment of code across the applications.
• Build an IaC based approach for deployment
• Define adoption of assistants, AI augmented coding tactics and Gen AI tools across phases of SDLC life cycle.
• Work with enterprise integration architects on system integration and also the integration of agents across the enterprise.

Required Certifications

One of the following:

• TOGAF Level 2 certification
• OR
• OpenGroup Master Certified Architect

Agentic Tools & AI Augmentation Experience

Coding & Development Agents

• GitHub Copilot
• Roo/Cline
• Cursor
• Visual Studio Code with AI-assisted development workflows
• ChatGPT for code generation, debugging, and documentation

AI-Augmented Collaboration & Product Delivery

• Miro with AI-assisted ideation and workflow mapping
• Jira for Agile delivery and AI-supported backlog management
• Confluence for AI-enhanced documentation and knowledge sharing

Enterprise Architecture & SDLC Enablement

• LeanIX
• AI-powered SDLC assistants and workflow automation tools
• Experience leveraging AI assistants for requirements analysis, documentation generation, testing support, and delivery acceleration

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.