Client-Facing Forward Deployed Engineer

Synechron; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Opportunities to work abroad

Maternity & paternity leave

Comprehensive insurance coverage

Retirement plan

Udemy for Business

Training & development

Commuter benefits

Diversity & inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Synechron seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, implement, and support complex technology solutions for client challenges. The role blends software engineering, data integration, and consulting, requiring clear communication with stakeholders and hands-on work across APIs, data models, and distributed systems.

The ideal candidate demonstrates experience delivering customer-facing projects from inception to production, travels regularly to work with clients, and leverages AI tools to move

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical experience across software engineering, data engineering, systems integration, or similar.
• Strong fundamentals in APIs, data models, infrastructure, security and distributed systems.
• Hands-on Python, SQL, APIs, cloud environments, and data integrations.
• Experience leading complex customer-facing projects from start to production.
• Excellent communication with engineers, executives, and users.
• High proficiency with AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to understand requirements and technical challenges.
• Design, develop, and deploy custom software solutions tailored to client needs.
• Build and maintain integrations between enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and third-party systems.
• Develop and optimize backend services, microservices, and data pipelines.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely resolutions.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to implement scalable solutions.
• Support client onboarding, implementation, and post-deployment activities.
• Conduct technical workshops, solution demonstrations, and architecture discussions with stakeholders.
• Analyze system performance and recommend improvements to increase reliability and efficiency.
• Create technical documentation, implementation guides, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Participate in deployment planning, release management, and production support activities.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between clients and internal engineering teams.

Skills

Five+ years exp

Software engineering

Data engineering

Systems integration

Technical consulting

Solutions engineering

Python

SQL

APIs

Cloud environments

Data integrations

Travel willingness

Tools

Python

SQL

APIs

Cloud

Job description

Synechron seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, implement, and support complex technology solutions for client challenges. The role blends software engineering, data integration, and consulting, requiring clear communication with stakeholders and hands-on work across APIs, data models, and distributed systems.

The ideal candidate demonstrates experience delivering customer-facing projects from inception to production, travels regularly to work with clients, and leverages AI tools to move