Missionforce - Senior​/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer ( Technical Architect), Public Sector

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on our Public Sector team, you'll be embedded with the U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Aerospace clients — designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions that drive mission-critical outcomes. Additionally you'll architect the backbone of a planet-scale platform that ships hundreds of features daily with rock-solid reliability and security. This role demands a builder's mindset, an AI-first approach, and the technical depth to take complex challenges from concept to production.

Mission Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead on high-profile customer engagements—designing, building, and deploying tailored Salesforce solutions for defense, intelligence, and aerospace missions.
• Engineer distributed systems running across thousands of compute nodes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), microservices (Kubernetes, Docker), and data pipelines
• Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
• Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
• Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
• Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
• Partner directly with customers and mission stakeholders to translate complex needs into technical solutions
• Lead rapid prototyping, root cause analysis, and best-practice evangelism across teams
• Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical role model

Minimum Requirements :

• 8+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience
• 4+ years of experience leading Salesforce Core Projects
• Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
• Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
• A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
• Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration
• Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
• Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs and patterns
• Ability to travel 25–50% of the time, as needed to customer sites.
• Active Secret clearance preferred

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
• Background in defense/aerospace, classified environments (IL5/IL6), or federal civilian agencies
• Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization
• Application design and development background
• Strong Enterprise Architecture background would be favorable
• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications