Expert Forward Deployment Engineer

Overview

In this role you drive security, reliability, and modernization of business-critical banking applications through hands-on engagements with development teams. You lead complex remediation efforts, build automated tests, and upgrade runtimes while shaping CI/CD and observability patterns. You work directly with client stakeholders to define and implement practical modernization plans and ensure sustainable engineering practices. This opportunity offers high-impact work at fintech scale with hands-on coding and direct technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead targeted engagements addressing security, testing, release, resilience, and legacy technology challenges with development teams.
• Assess code, dependencies, runtime, test coverage, deployment architecture, CI/CD, observability, and operational risks.
• Write, debug, review, and enhance production-quality code and configuration during engagements.
• Define and implement modernization and remediation plans with priorities, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop or improve unit, integration, component, contract, and deployment tests using TDD.
• Select and drive automation-testing approaches, including AI-assisted coding.
• Source test data and implement secure data masking for lower environments.
• Perform vulnerability triage, root-cause analysis, dependency reachability analyses, and regression testing.
• Upgrade Java, JVM, NPM, Spring, libraries, and OS to supported versions.
• Establish sustainable dependency-management processes with continuous library updates (Renovate or equivalent).
• Modernize legacy apps and middleware (WebSphere/WebLogic) and containerize with Docker/OpenShift.
• Improve source control, branching, PRs, and code reviews.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for safe, automated releases.
• Automate database changes (Liquibase or equivalent) and environment changes (Ansible or equivalent).
• Implement secure coding, secrets management, authz/authn, and least-privilege controls.
• Introduce standard observability patterns (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerts, health checks).
• Enhance exception handling, diagnostics, rollback procedures, and production-validation controls.
• Design/resiliently deploy architectures (hot-hot, cross-datacenter as needed).
• Lead technical workshops and communicate decisions, risks, and progress to stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, standards, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Take ownership from assessment to production handover and stabilization.

Key requirements

• Extensive hands-on software engineering experience with active code writing and configuration.
• Expertise in Java and JVM-based development; strong TypeScript for Node.js projects; Spring ecosystem proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with TDD and automated testing within CI/CD environments.
• Secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and dependency risk analysis with impact assessment.
• Upgrading runtimes/frameworks/libraries, container platforms (Docker/OpenShift), and Linux environments (Red Hat preferred).
• Knowledge of build tools (Maven/Gradle/npm), advanced Git workflows, and production debugging.
• Understanding of observability, exception handling, and production readiness; distributed systems principles.
• End-to-end ownership and strong client-facing communication; ability to coach teams and drive standards.
• Proficient use of AI-assisted development tools.

• End-to-end ownership of technical projects
• Effective client communication and technical leadership
• Coaching and sustainable standards implementation
• Java/JVM development
• Spring framework
• Test-Driven Development

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