Forward Deployed Engineer — AI, Cloud & Customer Impact

CGI Group Inc.; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance coverage

Medical benefits

Pension plan

Flexible time off

Health and Wellbeing Programme

Share Purchase Plan

Job summary

CGI Group Inc. in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the intersection of customer discovery and hands-on engineering.

You will engage with users, sponsors and delivery teams to turn ambiguity into clear engineering hypotheses and deliver measurable value. You will combine engineering, architecture, DevSecOps and product thinking, moving from problem discovery to practical solutions while focusing on security, data governance and human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Discover & Define: Work with customers to uncover operational problems, desired outcomes, constraints and risks before selecting technology solutions.
• Build & Deliver: Design, develop, test and improve digital services, prototypes, integrations and accelerators across software, AI, data, cloud and platform technologies.
• Experiment & Innovate: Rapidly test engineering hypotheses and turn promising concepts into practical solutions with measurable value.
• Apply & Govern AI: Identify appropriate AI opportunities while addressing model limitations, data quality, security, governance and human oversight.
• Shape & Prioritise: Translate ambiguous requirements into use cases and delivery backlogs focused on customer outcomes rather than technology novelty.
• Engage & Influence: Lead workshops, demonstrations, playbacks and decision forums, communicating technical trade-offs clearly to customer and CGI stakeholders.
• Collaborate & Lead: Work within multidisciplinary delivery pods and take ownership of work packages or smaller delivery threads.
• Assure & Protect: Apply pragmatic engineering, security and assurance practices to create resilient, responsible and traceable solutions.
• Coach & Share: Pair with colleagues, provide constructive reviews and feedback, and turn delivery learning into reusable patterns.
• Build & Evolve: Help establish CGI's Forward Deployed Engineering capability by contributing ideas, methods and engineering practices that can scale across customers.

Job description

CGI Group Inc. in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work at the intersection of customer discovery and hands-on engineering.

You will engage with users, sponsors and delivery teams to turn ambiguity into clear engineering hypotheses and deliver measurable value. You will combine engineering, architecture, DevSecOps and product thinking, moving from problem discovery to practical solutions while focusing on security, data governance and human oversight.