Forward Deployed Engineer - Deloitte Digital

KOJO Institute; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring and leadership programs

Global mobility opportunities

Internal secondments

Job summary

Deloitte Digital, part of Deloitte China, is seeking an engineer-first contributor who combines software development with data, AI, and platform integration. You'll split time between client embedding and producing production code to address evolving problems, from integrations to data pipelines and platform extensions.

You are an engineer at heart, fluent in AI-enabled problem solving, and comfortable discussing architecture with technical leads and business sponsors alike.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering principles and professional experience building software, ideally in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or Go, with willingness to work across the stack.
• Experience with data-intensive systems: pipelines, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Demonstrated AI native mindset – reaching for your favourite AI tools to solve problems.
• A bias toward action, you'd rather ship a working v0.1 than polish a specification.
• Genuine comfort with ambiguity and context-switching.
• Excellent communication and relationship skills, this is a deeply client-facing role.
• Willingness to travel to client sites and collaborate in person as required.
• Experience in consulting, professional services, or other client-facing engineering roles.
• Know your way around hyperscaler agent platforms such as Amazon AgentCore
• Have worked with Agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Strands, Crew AI,
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude Code, Copilot etc
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, or DevOps practices.
• Exposure to data engineering, analytics, or machine learning workflows.

Responsibilities

• Embed with clients to understand their hardest problems and write production code that solves them.
• Build integrations, stand up data pipelines, or extend platforms in novel ways.
• Communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and articulate trade-offs clearly.

Skills

Java/C#/Python/TypeScript/Go

Data pipelines/APIs

AWS

AI tools (Claude Code, Copilot)

CI/CD/DevOps

Architectural discussions

Tools

LangGraph

Strands

Crew AI

Amazon AgentCore

Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

Customer & Marketing, better known to our clients as Deloitte Digital, makes connections like no other with people, ideas, technology, society, our clients and their future. Here, the transformation journey starts and ends with the customer: in first understanding people’s real lives and then shaping our clients' future to deliver around them.

This is a part of Deloitte that uses technology and creativity to better connect the customer with the business.

We, at Deloitte Digital, use emergent technology to imagine, deliver, and run entirely new business futures.

We create innovative ventures, digital platforms, and more meaningful experiences.

Our team combines talents across strategy, design, innovation, and brand (Imagine) with data, insight, e-commerce, automation, and platform integration (Deliver) with marketing, advertising, content, and optimization (Run) to connect businesses to their futures in a way no traditional consultancy or agency can.

Mentoring, coaching and leadership programs to help you make an impact that matters

Purposeful client work with real community impact

Explore opportunities for global mobility and internal secondments

Be at the bleeding edge of technology where your fundamental skills in software engineering will be 10x'd through the leverage of agentic tools and workflows.

What will your typical day look like? No two days look the same, that's the point. You'll split your time between embedding with clients to understand their hardest problems and writing production code that solves them, whether that's building integrations, standing up data pipelines, or extending our platform in ways no one anticipated when it was first designed.

You’re an engineer first and foremost, you use an engineering mindset to solving problems. You are ALL IN on how AI can solve problems. You are a natural problem solver, and new tools means you tend to want to solve bigger problems.

You communicate naturally with both technical and non-technical people. You can hold your own in an architecture discussion and then turn around and explain the trade-offs to a business sponsor in plain language. You don't wait to be told what to do, you see what's needed and move.

We are looking for someone with

• Strong engineering principles and professional experience building software, ideally in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or Go, with willingness to work across the stack.
• Experience with data-intensive systems: pipelines, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Demonstrated AI native mindset – reaching for your favourite AI tools to solve problems.
• A bias toward action, you'd rather ship a working v0.1 than polish a specification.
• Genuine comfort with ambiguity and context-switching.
• Excellent communication and relationship skills, this is a deeply client-facing role.
• Willingness to travel to client sites and collaborate in person as required
• Experience in consulting, professional services, or other client-facing engineering roles.
• Know your way around hyperscaler agent platforms such as Amazon AgentCore
• Have worked with Agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Strands, Crew AI,
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude Code, Copilot etc
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, or DevOps practices.
• Exposure to data engineering, analytics, or machine learning workflows.

Shape your future through impact that matters

For more than 100 years of history, Deloitte witnessed also had the honor to be part of the economic boom in China by providing industry-leading audit & assurance, consulting, risk advisory, financial advisory, tax & business advisory services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500 Chinese companies and thousands of private companies. Deloitte China today carries on our centenary professionalism and strives to become the undisputed leader in professional services in China with strong responsibility and capabilities in digitalization and multidisciplinary services.

Deloitte has been named China's Top Employer since 2006, Universum's Most Attractive Employer in China since 2008, and the Best Workplaces in Greater China since 2019.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of their background, experience, identity or thinking style, and if you need assistance during the application process for accessibility reasons this is available upon request. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte China or by their external third-party provider.

Accessibility assistance

If you need assistance or an accommodation during the recruitment process for accessibility reasons, there will be an opportunity for you to let us know what you need once you begin your application.