Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI & Business Transformation)

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Job Description:

Datasite's Transformation Office partners across the company to improve how work gets done. Our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed directly with internal business teams to understand how they operate, identify opportunities for improvement, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

This is a hybrid role that combines consulting, product thinking, process redesign, AI, and software engineering. You won't receive fully defined requirements—instead, you'll work with business leaders to define problems, determine the right solution, and deliver lasting operational improvements.

Sometimes the best answer is better process design. Sometimes it's AI, automation, or custom software. Technology is a means to an end—not the objective.

Please note: To support collaboration with our team and business partners, we are currently accepting applications only from candidates located in the CST or EST Time Zones.

What You'll Do

• Partner directly with business teams to understand workflows, pain points, business goals, and operational challenges.

• Lead discovery workshops, map current-state processes, identify root causes, and recommend improvements.

• Partner with functional leaders to evaluate opportunities based on business value, technicl feasibility, adoption readiness, and measurable ROI.

• Determine the appropriate solution by balancing process redesign, AI, automation, integrations, and software engineering.

• Design, build, deploy, and support production-quality AI applications, automations, integrations, and data solutions.

• Own engagements from discovery through implementation, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement.

• Define success metrics and measure business outcomes including productivity, quality, cycle time, cost savings, risk reduction, and adoption.

• Coach business partners to own and evolve solutions after delivery.

• Develop reusable frameworks, patterns, and best practices that accelerate future transformation initiatives.

• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.

• Deliver solutions that meet Datasite's security, governance, compliance, and privacy standards.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience building production software, preferably using Python and modern cloud platforms.

• Experience delivering production AI, LLM, automation, or workflow solutions.

• Strong consulting and discovery skills with the ability to understand business problems before proposing technical solutions.

• Experience redesigning business processes to improve efficiency, quality, or scalability.

• Systems thinking with the ability to connect people, process, data, and technology across end-to-end workflows.

• Strong product judgment, including buy-versus-build and automation-versus-process decisions.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.

• Demonstrated ownership, adaptability, and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.

• Experience leading organizational adoption and change management is a plus.

• Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments is preferred.

What Success Looks Like

Successful Forward Deployed Engineers build trusted relationships across the business and deliver measurable operational improvements. They are evaluated on business impact, adoption, and sustainable outcomes—not the amount of code they write.

You leave every team better than you found it by improving how work gets done and enabling business partners to continue evolving solutions over time.

What This Role Is Not

This is not a traditional software engineering role where requirements are handed to you.