Forward Deploy Engineer

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide.

You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. 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

As a Forward Deployed Architect, you will work as a strategic partner to clients to ensure the successful adoption and scaling of enterprise-level technology. This role involves leading strategic discovery, designing and architecting production-ready products, and collaborating with clients to meet their business needs through solution delivery.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Integration Architecture Design:
Define the integration architecture and data transformation across various end systems, including defining the integration across different lines of business and data pipelines.

* Agent Workflow Integration:
Perform integration across various agent workflows to produce output for the SDLC, and integrate agents, assets, and assistants across various SDLC activities.

* Data Pipeline Definition:
Define a data integration pipeline with data mapping to support solution delivery and meet client needs.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* Technical Architecture:

Experience with designing and architecting production-ready products that embed Gen AI and Agentic AI capabilities, meeting security best practices and compliance standards.

* Integration Expertise:

Experience with defining integration architecture and data transformation across various end systems, including integration across different lines of business and data pipelines.

* Agent Integration:

Experience with integrating agents, assets, and assistants across various SDLC activities to produce output for the SDLC.

* Data Pipeline:

Experience with defining data integration pipelines with data mapping to support solution delivery and meet client needs.

* AI Capabilities:

Experience with Gen AI, Agentic AI, advanced Context Engineering, Spec Engineering, and Prompt Engineering to drive value-driven accelerated delivery.

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Advanced Context Engineering:

Experience with advanced Context Engineering to drive value-driven accelerated delivery.

* Spec Engineering Expertise:

Experience with Spec Engineering to support solution delivery and meet client needs.

* Prompt Engineering

Skills:

Experience with Prompt Engineering to drive value-driven accelerated delivery.

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

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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.

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