Senior AI-Driven Enterprise Architect & FDE

UKG; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG in Seattle is seeking a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex enterprise engagements across HCM, Payroll, and Workforce Management. You will act as a principal architect, blending enterprise systems design with agentic AI capabilities and hands-on engineering.

Embedded with strategic customers, you will ship production-grade integrations, AI-enabled workflows, and reusable platform patterns that accelerate time-to-value and expansion.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, architecture, or distributed systems
• Deep experience with enterprise integrations (APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, IAM)
• Strong cloud architecture experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience building production-grade systems in enterprise environments
• Strong customer-facing and executive communication skills
• Ability to operate autonomously and lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives
• Experience with AI-enabled systems, LLMs, copilots, or automation frameworks
• Understanding of agentic AI concepts (agents, orchestration, tool use)
• Ability to translate AI strategy into production-ready architectures

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for complex enterprise ecosystems across HCM, Payroll, WFM, ERP, IAM, and adjacent systems
• Design and deliver production-grade integrations, automation, and AI-enabled workflows
• Advise customers on agentic AI adoption, including orchestration, decisioning, and human-in-the-loop systems
• Translate business problems into scalable architectures combining systems + AI capabilities
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to CIO/CTO-level stakeholders
• Drive reusable accelerators, templates, and reference architectures
• Mentor and guide other FDEs; set technical standards and best practices
• Influence product roadmap through structured field feedback
• Guide enterprise customers on safe, compliant, and scalable AI adoption
• Design and prototype agentic workflows integrated with enterprise systems

Skills

Executive communication

Customer-facing

Autonomous leadership

Systems thinking

AI-enabled systems

Tools

APIs

Event-driven systems

Data pipelines

IAM

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

UKG in Seattle is seeking a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex enterprise engagements across HCM, Payroll, and Workforce Management. You will act as a principal architect, blending enterprise systems design with agentic AI capabilities and hands-on engineering.

Embedded with strategic customers, you will ship production-grade integrations, AI-enabled workflows, and reusable platform patterns that accelerate time-to-value and expansion.