Valtech

Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

Valtech
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12 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer engagements as the technical lead, aligning business objectives, engineering priorities, and technology opportunities.
  • Partner with executive sponsors, product leaders, engineering teams, and security partners to define roadmaps and drive AI-native ways of working.
  • Facilitate technical discovery, workshops, solution design sessions, stakeholder alignment, and delivery planning.
  • Remain hands-on in architecture, coding, deployment, systems integration, data pipelines, and production troubleshooting.
  • Design and implement scalable solutions integrating applications, services, APIs, databases, enterprise platforms, legacy systems, identity providers, and security controls.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to plan, build, test, debug, deploy, and optimize software.
  • Develop observability, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks for software quality, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor customer engineers and internal teams on architecture, modern software practices, AI-native delivery, and operational best practices.
  • Evaluate emerging AI tools and engineering practices and recommend improvements to customer delivery outcomes.
  • Document solution designs, architecture decisions, implementation practices, and knowledge-transfer materials while ensuring a successful customer handoff.

Requirements

  • Strong software development experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade applications and platforms.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows across solution design, development, testing, debugging, and delivery.
  • Architecture and systems integration experience connecting applications, services, APIs, databases, enterprise systems, and data sources.
  • Experience working across diverse programming languages, technology stacks, cloud environments, and customer requirements.
  • Experience deploying cloud resources with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Experience leading technical discovery with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define AI requirements and technical roadmaps.
  • Experience integrating AI systems with authenticated APIs, legacy data systems, enterprise IT infrastructure, and corporate security perimeters.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to customer sites.
  • Outstanding communication, leadership, and client engagement skills, including executive influence and the ability to explain complex AI and architecture concepts.
  • Preferred qualifications include advanced agentic AI, multi-agent architectures, MCP servers, enterprise AI observability, large-scale AI production support, secure governance, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture experience.
  • Preferred certifications include Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Anthropic Claude, Gemini Enterprise, and other recognized AI platform certifications.

Benefits

  • Remote, full-time position based in Canada, with applicants limited to Québec, Ontario, and British Columbia.
  • Occasional customer-site travel of up to 25% may be required.
  • Comprehensive insurance with Gold, Silver, or Bronze coverage options, including short- and long-term disability coverage, effective after three months.
  • Virtual healthcare through Dialogue via Sun Life, an Employee and Family Assistance Program, and mental health support.
  • Personal Spending Account, flexible vacation, winter holiday closure, and flexible scheduling.
  • RRSP contribution matching through a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan, subject to the stated eligibility and vesting rules.
  • Personal Technology Reimbursement of $30 per month, offered from day one.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraform

Categories

Forward Deployed
Valtech

About Valtech

5,001-10,000 employees

Valtech provides digital consulting and engineering services to large enterprises, delivering customer experience design, commerce platforms, data/AI solutions, and transformation programs. It works across sectors such as retail, financial services, manufacturing, mobility, health, and travel, offering strategy, design, build, and managed services. Founded in 1993, Valtech is a global company privately held under Kharis Capital.

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