Senior Forward Deployment Engineer — Banking Apps

Luxoft; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Tampa to enhance security, release reliability, and operational resilience of key banking applications. The role blends senior software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, security, and legacy modernization, with roughly 70% hands-on coding and configuration.

You will lead complex engagements, work with development and client stakeholders, define remediation approaches, implement changes, and enable client teams to sustain improved

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering with Java/JVM and Spring; recent coding in production code.
• Experience building automated tests and CI/CD pipelines; secure coding practices.
• Linux admin, build tools, Git workflows, and production debugging expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead targeted technical engagements addressing security, testing, release, resilience, and legacy technology challenges.
• Assess application code, dependencies, runtime environment, test coverage, deployment architecture, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational risks.
• Write, debug, review, and enhance production‑quality code and configuration throughout engagements.
• Define and implement practical modernization and remediation plans with clear priorities, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop or improve unit, integration, component, contract, and deployment smoke tests using Test‑Driven Development practices.
• Select appropriate automation‑testing approaches per application and drive implementation, including the use of AI coding assistance.
• Source suitable test data and implement secure data masking for lower environments.
• Conduct vulnerability triage, root‑cause and dependency reachability analyses, remediation prioritization, secure code changes, and regression testing.
• Upgrade Java, JVM, NPM, Spring, open‑source libraries, internal dependencies, installed software, base images, and operating systems to supported versions.
• Establish sustainable dependency‑management processes with continuous library updates using Renovate or equivalent tools.
• Modernize legacy applications and middleware stacks, including those deployed on WebSphere or WebLogic.
• Containerize applications using Docker and support deployment to OpenShift.
• Improve source control, branch management, pull‑request, and code‑review practices.
• Design, implement, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe, repeatable, automated, and easy releases.
• Automate installed software and environment changes using Ansible or equivalent configuration management tools.
• Implement secure coding patterns, secrets management, authentication, authorisation, and least‑privilege controls.
• Introduce standard observability patterns, including structured logging, application metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and actionable health checks.
• Enhance exception handling, operational diagnostics, rollback procedures, and production‑validation controls.
• Design or improve resilient deployment architectures, including hot‑hot cross‑datacenter deployments where required.
• Lead technical workshops and effectively communicate technical decisions, risks, blockers, trade‑offs, and progress to engineering, security, architecture, operations, project management, and stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, coaching, reusable standards, documentation, and knowledge transfer to development teams.
• Take ownership from initial assessment through implementation, production deployment, stabilisation, and handover.

Skills

Java/JVM

Spring

TypeScript

CI/CD

TDD

Security

Docker

OpenShift

Linux

Git workflows

Observability

AI coding tools

Ownership

Client communication

Coaching

Dependency management

Tools

Maven

Gradle

npm

Renovate

Dependabot

Job description

Luxoft is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in Tampa to enhance security, release reliability, and operational resilience of key banking applications. The role blends senior software engineering, DevOps, SRE, test automation, security, and legacy modernization, with roughly 70% hands-on coding and configuration.

You will lead complex engagements, work with development and client stakeholders, define remediation approaches, implement changes, and enable client teams to sustain improved