Forward Deployed Engineer - Data & AI

Forward Deployed Engineer - Data & AI | Fully Remote (UK) | c.£130k DOE
** Contract and Permanent Opportunities **

The opportunity
We're working with a business that has won AWS Partner of the Year in the UK and Google Partner of the Year for Europe. We have worked exclusively with them for around five years, and in that time they've grown from 18 to 70 engineers and architects in the UK.

They're now investing heavily in their Google Data & AI practice, working closely with Google and helping organisations move beyond AI experimentation and put data and AI solutions into production.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys working at the forefront of Google Cloud, Data and AI. You'll take ideas and prototypes and turn them into fully functioning, production-ready applications, working across data engineering, AI and cloud to make solutions work in real business environments.

The work

• Take data and AI solutions from initial concepts and prototypes through to production-ready applications.
• Build conversational and agentic AI applications, including agents that interact with users, connect to business systems and data, and carry out tasks.
• Work hands-on with Google Cloud technologies to develop, integrate and deploy solutions.
• Build and integrate APIs, connect existing infrastructure and develop the cloud environments needed to support applications.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable and ready for real-world use.
• Work directly with customers to understand their challenges, demonstrate what's possible with Google technology and shape technical solutions.
• Support Google-facing demonstrations and pre-sales activity, showcasing emerging technologies and what they can deliver.

About you

• A strong hands-on engineer with excellent GCP experience and a solid foundation in data.
• Experience building and deploying data and AI solutions, ideally taking them through to production.
• A good understanding of cloud architecture and how to build scalable, secure and reliable applications.
• Exposure to conversational AI, agentic AI or building AI-powered applications is ideal.
• Comfortable working directly with customers, understanding technical challenges and translating these into working solutions.
• Someone who enjoys variety, getting stuck into complex problems and keeping up with emerging technologies.

Tech:

• Strong hands-on GCP experience
• Vertex AI or Gemini
• Agent Development Kit (ADK)
• Conversational and Agentic AI
• Python and API integrations
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Data lake technologies

Strong GCP and Data experience is essential, alongside a genuine understanding of AI and how to put it into practice. You don't need to tick every box, but you do need to be technically strong.

Why apply?
You'll work directly with Google teams, gaining exposure to emerging products and technologies, often while they're still in private preview. There's plenty of variety, the opportunity to build cutting-edge demos and, most importantly, the chance to take genuinely innovative data and AI solutions into production.