Forward Deployed Engineer - Data & Analytics

About the role

Oliver Wyman's DNA team brings data, analytics, AI and engineering practitioners alongside its consulting colleagues, embedding inside client teams to turn real business problems into working technology. This Forward Deployed Engineer role is hybrid, with at least three days per week in the office or onsite with clients. You will take AI solutions from idea to secure production in live client environments, acting as a senior member of the team without a defined brief.

Key responsibilities

• Embed in client teams to understand how work is done and frame business problems as AI problems
• Lead delivery end to end: design, build, test, deploy and iterate AI solutions in production
• Set technical direction and defend architectural choices to client engineering and security teams
• Stand up integrations, permissions, hosting and data access with client IT
• Prove value at small scale in production, then help productise and scale what works
• Build a pipeline of new use cases and help clients build their own capability
• Bring on other engineers and mentor them through review, pairing and mentoring

Required profile

• Recent hands-on experience in Python, ideally with C#/.NET, Java, Rust or C++
• Track record of taking AI or machine learning systems into production, including LLMs, prompt design, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses and retrieval pipelines
• Ability to own a project from start to finish in an ambiguous setting
• Experience working directly with clients or business stakeholders
• Strong academic background, with an undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or a related field
• Financial services experience is a bonus but not essential

Required skills

• APIs and integrations, SQL, cloud platforms (Azure or AWS)
• Version control, CI/CD, and security and access considerations for deployments in client environments
• Excellent programming and system design skills

What we offer

• A wide variety of projects alongside talented colleagues
• The chance to deliver demonstrable business value with customers
• Learning from industry experts across Oliver Wyman's client base