Forward Deployed Engineer

Job Title: Forward Deployed EngineerLocation: Anywhere in UK About the Job you are considering:This role is ideal for professionals who combine strong technical expertise, AI knowledge, business consulting skills, and Financial Services domain experience to deliver transformational outcomes for clients.FDEs will work directly with client business and technology teams to identify opportunities, define solutions, build AI-powered products, and ensure successful adoption. They will own engagements end-to-end, from discovery and solution design through deployment, industrialization, and value realization.Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.Key Responsibilities:Discovery & Solution DesignLead client workshops to understand business challenges and define success metrics.Translate business objectives into AI-enabled solutions and operating model changes.Shape architecture, workflow, platform, and technology decisions.Delivery & EngineeringOwn solution architecture and drive hands-on delivery of critical components.Develop prototypes, proofs of value, and production-ready solutions.Apply AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics to solve business problems.Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, reliability, and regulatory requirements.Define requirements, acceptance criteria, and production-readiness standards.Adoption & Value RealizationDrive user adoption, stakeholder engagement, and change management.Track business outcomes and benefits after deployment.Ensure solutions are documented, scalable, and operationally sustainable.Leadership & GrowthLead delivery pods and mentor junior team members.Contribute to reusable assets, accelerators, and best practices.Support pre-sales activities, client workshops, solution demonstrations, and business case development.Must-Have Skills:8+ years of experience in consulting, software engineering, solution architecture, product management, or business transformation.Proven experience leading client engagements from discovery through deployment.Strong stakeholder management, communication, and workshop facilitation skills.Knowledge of Financial Services domains (banking and/or insurance).Experience with AI, Generative AI, workflow automation, analytics, or agentic AI solutions.Understanding of AI concepts such as RAG, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, tool calling, evaluation methods, guardrails, and Responsible AI.Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing delivery workstreams.Good-to-Have Skills:Experience delivering AI/GenAI solutions in production environments.Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, APIs, DevOps, containers, and enterprise integrations.Experience with business architecture, process transformation, operating model design, and capability mapping.Familiarity with regulated environments, model risk management, data governance, and compliance.Experience supporting pre-sales, solution shaping, and business development initiatives.We are a Disability Confident Employer:Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.Please opt in during the application process.Make It Real (what does it mean for you):You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.Why you should consider Capgemini:Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.About Capgemini:Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com