Forward Deployment Engineer - Manager (Hybrid)

About the role

EY GDS Spain is looking for an AI & Data Architect, Forward Deployment Engineer (FDE), with 8-10 years of hands-on engineering experience, to design, build and deploy AI-powered solutions directly with clients. The role suits someone who enjoys ambiguous environments, prefers building real systems over managing teams, and wants to turn business problems into production-grade AI solutions. The position is hybrid.

Key responsibilities

• Lead complex end-to-end deployments in production at strategic customers.
• Act as a forward-deployed technical owner, moving ideas from concept to prototype to production.
• Lead the discovery, design, development and deployment of high-impact AI / GenAI solutions with client stakeholders.
• Build LLM-driven applications, RAG systems and agentic workflows that show measurable business value.
• Create reusable accelerators, frameworks and reference implementations for enterprise GenAI.
• Enable rapid experimentation and large-scale adoption of AI, data and cloud platforms through hands-on engineering leadership.

Required profile

• 8-10 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering or AI/ML.
• Strong hands-on system-building and production deployment experience.
• Proven experience delivering solutions in client-facing or high-ambiguity environments.
• Ability to independently own and deliver complex, high-impact solutions.
• Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.

Required skills

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs and cloud-native architectures.
• Ideally: LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, vector databases, agentic workflows and orchestration frameworks.
• Ideally: integration of AI systems with enterprise data platforms, and exposure to Azure, AWS, GCP and other hyperscaler ecosystems.

What we offer

• Tailored training and development programs.
• Hybrid work model.
• Wellness initiatives, including psychological support sessions and health resources.
• Volunteering opportunities and recognition programs for performance.

Candidates apply by submitting their CV in English through the EY GDS careers page.