Senior Forward-Deployment Engineer - Enterprise AI & GCP

ADG; Johannesburg; Sur place; ZAR 1 200 000 - 1 800 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ADG seeks a highly accomplished Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to own the technical relationship with a strategic enterprise client. You will architect PoCs, build hands-on demos, and solve complex deployment, integration, and data-flow challenges in real time, leveraging AI to guide decisions and expanding the customer’s technical footprint.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive architectural alignment, and act as the go-to technical expert from pre-sales to delivery,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, backend systems, cloud architecture, or SRE.
• Proficiency in modern enterprise languages (Python, Java, TypeScript/Node.js; Rust/Go optional).
• Deep experience with cloud, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD.
• Ability to architect REST/gRPC APIs, microservices, security integrations, and data pipelines.

Responsabilités

• Act as primary technical authority for a key enterprise customer.
• Identify technical gaps and opportunities; collaborate with presales for future architectures.
• Scope, design, and build PoCs and production-grade demos for the customer ecosystem.
• Design deployment pipelines, integrations, and data flows, focusing on GCP environments.
• Unblock customer engineering with real-time debugging of deployment, infra, or performance issues.
• Bridge customer requirements with Product & Core Engineering for enterprise features.

Connaissances

Senior Engineering

Hands-on Coding

Cloud Infra Mastery

Integration & Systems

Executive Presence

Technical Ownership

Empathy & Communication

Description du poste

ADG seeks a highly accomplished Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to own the technical relationship with a strategic enterprise client. You will architect PoCs, build hands-on demos, and solve complex deployment, integration, and data-flow challenges in real time, leveraging AI to guide decisions and expanding the customer’s technical footprint.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive architectural alignment, and act as the go-to technical expert from pre-sales to delivery,