Capgemini

Forward Deployment Engineer - Managing Business Architect

Capgemini
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2 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +6 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$98k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with client teams to understand workflows, pain points, and value levers and translate business problems into deployable AI-native solutions.
  • Own implementation from concept and prototype through production deployment in live client environments.
  • Configure, extend, and deploy Echo agents, workflows, and orchestration layers across enterprise systems, data platforms, and APIs.
  • Design workflows combining human and digital labor to optimize task allocation, throughput, cost efficiency, and user experience.
  • Develop POCs and MVPs rapidly, iterate with client stakeholders, and support adoption and enterprise scale-up.
  • Define and manage business architecture covering strategy, capabilities, services, governance, organizational domains, processes, and end-to-end value delivery.
  • Lead architecture topics and client workstreams at CIO or CTO level and contribute to market development and service delivery excellence.
  • Establish reusable implementation patterns, accelerators, and deployment playbooks while quantifying business impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • 9–12+ years of experience building and shipping software, including client-facing or ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong engineering foundation in Python, APIs, and at least one major cloud platform.
  • Hands-on experience with AI/LLMs, automation, or agent-based systems.
  • Ability to structure ambiguous problems into deployable solutions with end-to-end systems thinking.
  • Strong client-facing communication skills across business and technology stakeholders.
  • Preferred: experience integrating enterprise systems such as SAP or Salesforce and familiarity with data pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
  • Preferred: consulting, forward-deployed, or startup founding/early-engineer experience, plus exposure to agent orchestration, RAG, or evaluation and observability tooling.
  • Preferred: Capgemini Architects certification level 2 or above, IAF, and TOGAF 9 or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Paid time off including 12–25 vacation days depending on grade, company holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
  • Retirement savings plans such as 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
  • Life and disability insurance and employee assistance programs.
  • Regular full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package subject to local policy and eligibility.
  • Applicants must currently reside in San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, or New York/New Jersey.

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Forward Deployed
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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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