4 days ago
Erfurt, Germany +12 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own measurable outcomes for complex and strategic customer engagements and translate strategic goals into clear decisions.
- Lead discovery, assessment, solution shaping, prioritization, prototyping, and experimentation for enterprise initiatives.
- Set technology direction across AI, generative AI, data, cloud, and enterprise architecture.
- Evaluate solutions for security, responsible AI, scalability, operational readiness, cost, and business value.
- Orchestrate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, architecture, product, transformation, delivery, operations, and FDE.
- Act as a trusted advisor and functional leader for executive, business, technology, and senior stakeholders.
- Mentor and coach other Forward Deployed Engineers and develop scalable methods, assets, and best practices.
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of relevant experience in AI or software engineering, solution architecture, consulting, customer engineering, product, technology delivery, or comparable fields.
- Extensive experience leading complex enterprise engagements and connecting technical, commercial, and organizational decisions to business value, risk, cost, time-to-value, adoption, and scalability.
- Deep expertise in enterprise architecture, AI engineering, data, integration, and cloud, with broad knowledge of generative AI, agentic systems, RAG, automation, security, responsible AI, and production AI solutions.
- Experience with executive communication, senior-stakeholder relationship building, multidisciplinary team leadership without formal authority, mentoring, coaching, or functional quality assurance.
- Strategic and commercial judgment, technical depth, and the ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, engineering, data science, business technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and extensive relevant experience.
- Negotiation-fluent German at least C1 and very good English.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours with flex-time arrangements, with travel time counted as working time.
- Home-office option with possible compensation support and workplace equipment agreement.
- 30 days of vacation plus December 24 and December 31 as additional non-working days.
- Sabbatical of up to one year.
- Remote and mobile work options within the EU.
- Retirement benefits, JobRad, Jobticket, corporate discounts, and other benefit and compensation-optimization programs.
- Health and preventative-care offerings, occupational medical support, accident insurance including worldwide leisure accidents, and family services.
- Internal and external training through the NTT DATA Academy, including certifications, soft-skill training, and Udemy access.
- Team-oriented culture with autonomy, communities, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and ESG initiatives.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About NTT DATA
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.