NTT DATA

Forward Deployed Engineer (w/m/x) - AI & Enterprise Solutions

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4 days ago
Erfurt, Germany +12 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers and stakeholders to understand business goals, workflows, and challenges and translate them into prioritized, measurable solution approaches.
  • Independently conduct discovery and solution shaping, define success criteria and assumptions, and use evidence to determine which ideas should proceed.
  • Develop or oversee prototypes, proof points, and experiments to demonstrate business value and technical feasibility.
  • Evaluate solutions across AI, generative AI, data, cloud architecture, integration, security, responsible AI, operational readiness, and cost.
  • Maintain an outcome focus from ideation through implementation, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and turn customer-project insights into reusable assets and best practices.

Requirements

  • Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in software or AI engineering, solution architecture, consulting, customer engineering, product engineering, technology delivery, or related fields.
  • Strong technical expertise in enterprise architecture, engineering, data, integration, and cloud, with practical experience in AI, generative AI, agentic systems, RAG, automation, and model and tool integration.
  • Experience designing complex enterprise solutions from discovery and prototyping through architecture, security, deployment, and production readiness.
  • Strong consulting and stakeholder skills, including the ability to build trust with technical, business, and senior stakeholders and influence decisions without formal authority.
  • Independent and structured approach to complex situations, combining technical judgment with commercial thinking.
  • Degree in computer science, IT, engineering, data science, business technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
  • Business-fluent German at least C1 level and very good English skills.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours with flexitime, with travel time counted as working time.
  • Home-office options, including possible compensation support and workplace equipment, plus remote and mobile work from within the EU.
  • 30 days of vacation, with December 24 and 31 additionally treated as non-working days.
  • Sabbatical options of up to one year.
  • Company benefits including occupational pension, JobRad, Jobticket, corporate discounts, health and preventive care, accident insurance, family services, and benefit optimization programs.
  • Internal and external training through the NTT DATA Academy, including technical training, certifications, soft-skill courses, and Udemy access.
  • Team-oriented culture with significant scope for shaping the role and opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange.

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About NTT DATA

10,000+ employees

NTT DATA is a Tokyo‑headquartered, publicly traded IT services firm within the NTT Group. It provides consulting, application development, system integration, cloud and enterprise application services, and managed/outsourcing services for large enterprises and public-sector organizations. The company operates in more than 50 countries and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

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