Forward Deployment Engineer

This role is for one of our clients
Industry: Banking and Financial Services
Seniority level: Associate level
Min Experience: 2+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Bengaluru
JobType: full-time
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We’re looking for a Forward Deployment Engineer to work at the intersection of engineering, product and the business.
As a Forward Deployment Engineer, you will take technology from prototype to production by working directly with internal stakeholders to understand real-world problems, rapidly build and integrate solutions, and deploy them into production environments.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys operating close to the customer, moving quickly from ambiguity to working software, and taking ownership beyond writing code.
You will partner with product managers, engineers, architects, data specialists and business stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop solutions, validate them in real environments and scale successful implementations across NatWest.
What You’ll Do
Work directly with business and product teams to understand complex problems and translate them into technical solutions
Rapidly prototype, build and deploy production-quality applications and integrations
Own solutions end-to-end - from discovery and technical design through development, deployment, adoption and continuous improvement
Embed with teams and operate close to the problem rather than working purely as a central engineering function
Integrate applications with existing platforms, APIs, data sources and enterprise systems
Develop reusable components, services and patterns that can be scaled across teams
Work across the full engineering lifecycle, including coding, testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and production support
Diagnose technical issues in live environments and work collaboratively to resolve them
Partner with architecture, security, platform and infrastructure teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards
Use data, experimentation and user feedback to iterate rapidly and demonstrate measurable impact
Help identify where emerging technologies, including AI and GenAI, can solve meaningful business problems
Document solutions and share learnings so successful approaches can be adopted more broadly
Influence engineering practices and contribute to a strong engineering culture
What We’re Looking For
Engineering
Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production applications
Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go or C#
Strong proficiency in AI/ML, GenAI, LLM applications, AI agents and Data engineering or analytics
Experience designing and consuming REST APIs, microservices and distributed systems
Experience with cloud technologies, preferably GCP, AWS or Azure
Strong understanding of databases, data structures and system integration
Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing and modern software development practices
Understanding of observability, logging, monitoring and production troubleshooting
Experience working with containers and/or Kubernetes
Forward deployment mindset
Comfortable working with ambiguity and turning loosely defined problems into working solutions
Able to move quickly between discovery, prototyping and production engineering
Strong customer and stakeholder orientation
Comfortable working directly with senior business and technical stakeholders
Able to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Strong problem-solving and debugging capability
Pragmatic: knows when to build quickly, when to engineer for scale and when to reuse an existing capability
Takes ownership for outcomes rather than only technical deliverables
Advantageous Experience
Experience in one or more of the following would be valuable:
Cloud-native application development
API and platform integration
DevOps / SRE
Financial services or other highly regulated environments
Enterprise technology transformation
Rapid prototyping / innovation engineering
What Success Looks Like
In this role, success isn’t simply measured by the amount of code you write.
You will be successful when you can:
Understand → Build → Deploy → Adopt → Scale
Turn a business problem into a viable technical solution
Get a working solution into the hands of users quickly
Build trust with stakeholders through technical expertise and delivery
Take solutions into production safely and sustainably
Demonstrate measurable business or customer impact
Turn successful experiments into reusable engineering capabilities
Why this role is different
The Forward Deployment Engineer operates where the problem is, not just where the engineering team sits.
You will have the opportunity to combine the depth of a software engineer with the curiosity of a product thinker and the stakeholder skills of a solutions engineer.
You’ll work on problems where the solution isn’t always known upfront - and you’ll be expected to discover, build and deploy the answer.

Work arrangement
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