Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) – CT Engineering

About the role

The Forward-Deployed Engineer works within EY Fabric Growth & Adoption to bridge client needs with platform capabilities, delivering pragmatic solutions that become reusable and integrated into core products.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Pre‑Sales and client‑facing teams to capture friction points and define solutions.
• Design and implement infrastructure, scripting, and application‑level solutions across hybrid and cloud environments.
• Deliver working solutions in short cycles (1–4 weeks) and merge them into product codebases.
• Review new and existing offerings, provide structured feedback, and ensure alignment before releases.
• Identify improvement opportunities, contribute fixes or automations, and feed learnings back into engineering and documentation.
• Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Pre‑Sales, translating technical scenarios for business stakeholders.

Required profile

• Finisher who takes ownership and ensures work is completed despite complexity.
• Highly self‑directed, able to identify next steps without waiting for direction.
• Precise in execution, following instructions and delivering reliably.
• Bias for action, prioritising delivery over over‑analysis.
• Comfortable switching contexts between infrastructure, code, product, and AI tooling.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure (preferred)
• PowerShell, Python, Bash scripting
• Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• AI‑assisted development tools