Workday

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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3 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, configure, and debug AI agents and integrations in live enterprise tenant environments.
  • Lead technical discovery sessions and develop product configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
  • Troubleshoot complex customer workflows, live data issues, and custom integrations.
  • Capture field telemetry, edge-case failures, and customer friction to influence product and engineering priorities.
  • Transform recurring deployment challenges into standardized and automated product capabilities.
  • Collaborate with AI Deployment Architects, Product Managers, Workday Services leads, and Account Teams.
  • Guide customer engagements from kickoff through graduation within standard six-month deployment cycles.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or software development.
  • Hands-on coding and debugging experience with Python, Java, or similar technologies.
  • Understanding of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns.
  • Experience working directly with enterprise clients on complex software deployments, live data troubleshooting, and custom workflow integration.
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.
  • Strong product thinking, technical communication, collaboration, and ability to operate amid ambiguity.
  • Preferred: applied experience with LLM-powered or agentic AI systems, prompt/context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, or agent orchestration frameworks.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
  • Travel may be required up to 20% to customer sites.
  • Customer engagements generally follow six-month deployment cycles.
  • EU location base salary range and potential eligibility for a bonus plan or annual refresh stock grants are described in the posting.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
Workday

About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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