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At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities Forward Deployed Engineering role 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 will aim 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

Engineering 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, 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.

Responsibilities In This Role Include 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 the AI based tools for testing cycle.

Define a deployment model





Define a deployment model and a DevOps pipeline

Define AI augmentation across the model Required Technical And Professional Expertise Define the enterprise architecture for digitalisation 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.

Agent harness development and adoptions across the life cycle. Define standards of context engineering for code development.

Implement Enterprise architecture defined by an Forward Deployed Architect (FDA) on a business application development on technology, data source and AI Agent adoption. Define ethical AI adoption in client enterprise. Document usage of relevant assets on ADDs

Define a CI/CD pipeline for deployment of code across the applications.

Build an IaC based approach for deployment

Define adoption of ICA assistants, vibe 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.

General

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Appreciate your help!

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