Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Enterprise AI Delivery

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own outcomes across complex customer engagements, aligning executive, business, and technical stakeholders to drive production value.

As a senior leader, you will orchestrate cross-functional teams, shape opportunities, and ensure delivery routes are tailored to customer needs while managing risk and scale across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• Requires deep domain and business awareness, executive communication skills, and strong judgement across AI, data, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic objectives and measurable outcomes with executive and technical stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, assessment, and solution shaping to form a portfolio of validated opportunities.
• Maintain outcome framework across engagements with baselines, target measures, and evidence required for progression.
• Direct rapid prototyping, experiments, and demonstrations focused on value and feasibility.
• Provide senior technical and solution judgement across AI, data, integration, architecture, security, privacy, and operational readiness.
• Shape opportunities into production-ready work with governance, estimates, and scalable delivery.

Skills

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Strategic thinking

AI engineering

Enterprise architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to own outcomes across complex customer engagements, aligning executive, business, and technical stakeholders to drive production value.

As a senior leader, you will orchestrate cross-functional teams, shape opportunities, and ensure delivery routes are tailored to customer needs while managing risk and scale across enterprise platforms.