IT & Software

Forward Deployed Engineer

Janus Henderson

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you partner with business users to convert friction into AI and data solutions that reach production. You will be part of a firm-wide AI transformation, embedding with desks to shape problems and deliver reusable, scalable capabilities. You’ll own end-to-end delivery from first conversation to live running, contributing to firm-wide investment capabilities and governance. This is a hands-on, cross-functional engineering position with a strong emphasis on real impact and collaboration.

Pay / Benefits
  • Hybrid working
  • Generous holiday policies
  • Health and wellbeing benefits
  • Volunteer time
  • Professional development support
  • Parental leave and family services
Responsibilities
  • Embed with the business by sitting with users to understand workflows and friction
  • Partner with AI Enablement Partners to surface and deliver demand
  • Design, build, and productionise complex AI solutions from prototype to live running
  • Own architecture decisions keeping security, scalability, and enterprise alignment
  • Build investment capability on Nexus and expose it firm-wide via Accio and Nexus
  • Source data through APIs and enterprise systems and curate views for business use
  • Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability; help with governance checkpoints
  • Collaborate across AI function and ensure solutions meet security and governance standards
Key requirements
  • Four+ years in a technical, business-facing engineering role
  • Strong Python and SQL with a track record of production-grade applications
  • Production experience with LLMs including prompt/context engineering, agent development, evaluation, and deployment at scale
  • Hands-on experience building agentic capability (MCP servers, tools, or connectors)
  • Experience building data pipelines from APIs and enterprise systems and modeling data into business-facing views
  • Working knowledge of Azure or a major cloud with CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code
  • Excellent stakeholder skills and ability to operate with ambiguity in a regulated environment
  • High agency and genuine business problem focus
  • Excellent stakeholder management
  • Comfort with ambiguity and high initiative
  • Ability to run discovery with business users and translate into technical work
  • Python
  • SQL
  • LLMs (prompting, evaluation, deployment)

Reference: WJ-747_30251908

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