Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Strategy & Delivery

NTT DATA; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 156,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to drive strategic customer engagements, owning outcomes from discovery to production value. You will align executive and technical stakeholders, orchestrate multi-disciplinary teams, and shape scalable delivery across AI, data, and platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes senior advisory leadership, risk management, and the ability to turn ambiguous priorities into measurable business value for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience with executive-facing clients.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous priorities into measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication and facilitation across business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic objectives and measurable outcomes with executives and stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, assessment, and solution shaping to create validated opportunities.
• Establish outcome framework with baselines, targets, and evidence for progression.
• Direct rapid prototyping, experiments, and demonstrations focused on high-value assumptions.
• Provide senior technical and solution judgement across AI, data, integration, architecture, security, and governance.
• Shape opportunities into production-ready work and ensure scalable delivery.

Skills

Executive leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Customer engagement

Solution judgement

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Data Science/Business Tech

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to drive strategic customer engagements, owning outcomes from discovery to production value. You will align executive and technical stakeholders, orchestrate multi-disciplinary teams, and shape scalable delivery across AI, data, and platform capabilities.

The role emphasizes senior advisory leadership, risk management, and the ability to turn ambiguous priorities into measurable business value for enterprise customers.