Microsoft Data Engineer

The Role Forward Deployed Engineers work where enterprise AI becomes real. This is not a traditional consulting role or a back office engineering position.

Forward Deployed

Engineers embed directly with customers to design, build, and deploy AI solutions that operate in complex, regulated, production environments. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will own defined delivery workstreams within customer engagements—prototyping, deploying, and optimizing AI systems that create measurable business outcomes. You will operate with growing independence in customer environments, bridging deep engineering expertise with business context, and translating ambiguous problems into production‐ready solutions.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, consulting, and delivery accountability. You will use modern AI development tools to accelerate solution design, code generation, testing, and deployment, while building the customer trust that sustains long‐term impact and referenceable success.

What you will do Customer Engagement & Solution Integrity: Partner with customers to understand business challenges and translate them into high‐quality, fit‐for‐purpose technical solutions, prioritising the right outcome over the fastest one Rapid Prototyping: Build and iterate custom AI solutions tailored to customer needs, leveraging agentic AI frameworks Ownership, Deployment & Partnership: Own delivery end to end, from scoping to production. Work as part of the customer team to engineer and deploy production‐ready solutions that drive adoption and measurable business outcomes Optimization: Troubleshoot and enhance system performance, scalability, and reliability Field Intelligence: Systematically capture deployment learnings, document best practices, and proactively share insights to inform enhancements to Kyndryl's core platforms and frameworks