AI & Forward-Deployed Engineering Practice Lead (Remote)

GuidePoint Security LLC; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based

Group Medical Insurance options

Group Dental Insurance

12 corporate holidays

Flexible Time Off

Phone and internet allowance

Retirement plan eligibility

Pet Benefit Option

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking a Practice Lead for Agentic Forward Deployed Engineering to build and scale a new enterprise AI-focused consulting practice in the Northeast region. You will be hands-on technically while leading teams, defining offerings, and delivering end-to-end customer engagements.

The role combines architectural leadership, solution design, and pre-sales strategy with a focus on AI-driven enterprise integrations, cloud platforms, and secure production deployments.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in cybersecurity or related field + 10 years of relevant experience or MS/MA + 7 years of relevant experience.
• 10+ years in enterprise technology, software engineering, architecture, or technical consulting with significant experience in senior technical or advisory roles working directly with enterprise customers.
• Hands-on experience designing or implementing solutions using generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted software engineering including orchestration, retrieval, tool use, context management, and evaluation.
• Strong technical depth across enterprise architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), APIs, data architectures, DevSecOps, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Proven consulting skills with the ability to identify the underlying customer problem, translate business needs into technical solutions, and move from prototype to secure, scalable production.
• Experience developing consulting offerings, reference architectures, accelerators, or repeatable delivery methodologies — with commercial awareness of how technical decisions affect scope, effort, risk, and margin.
• Experience mentoring engineers or consultants, partnering with sales teams to shape opportunities, and communicating technical value to security leaders and technology executives.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and retain top talent across four delivery teams; build the organizational structure and leadership bench required to support aggressive growth in the Mid-Atlantic region.
• Build and scale GuidePoint’s Agentic Forward Deployed Engineering practice by defining service offerings, delivery methods, technical standards, and reusable accelerators.
• Lead customer engagements end-to-end: discovery, architecture design, rapid prototyping, proof-of-concept development, and early production implementations.
• Design solutions that integrate AI models and agents with enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, identity systems, security controls, and cloud environments.
• Own pre-sales technical strategy — lead customer workshops, technical demonstrations, solution development, proposals, and statements of work alongside account teams.
• Develop repeatable reference architectures and delivery patterns that enable the practice to scale without sacrificing quality.
• Recruit and provide technical leadership to Forward Deployed Engineers as the practice grows; establish delivery standards and engineering culture.
• Partner with Northeast leadership to manage pipeline, delivery capacity, utilization, and practice performance against growth targets.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and development practices; determine where they create meaningful customer value and integrate them into the practice.
• Build technical capability around strategic technology partners within GuidePoint’s ecosystem.
• Represent GuidePoint externally through executive briefings, industry events, demonstrations, and thought leadership.

Skills

AI leadership

Enterprise architecture

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

Consulting skills

Leadership

Pre-sales strategy

Client workshops

Agile alignment

Education

BS/BA in cybersecurity or related field

MS/MA in cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Generative AI tools

APIs

Data platforms

LLM frameworks

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking a Practice Lead for Agentic Forward Deployed Engineering to build and scale a new enterprise AI-focused consulting practice in the Northeast region. You will be hands-on technically while leading teams, defining offerings, and delivering end-to-end customer engagements.

The role combines architectural leadership, solution design, and pre-sales strategy with a focus on AI-driven enterprise integrations, cloud platforms, and secure production deployments.