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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Brookfield, WI, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Software Applications, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Spreadsheets, Code Review, Data Validation, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Oracle (Applications), Microsoft SharePoint, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Solution Deployment Descriptor, Systems Integration, Unstructured Data, Web Application Frameworks, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Backend, Api Design, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1d3eda63-4136-43c1-8bd8-8a61053c9946

## About the Role

* 5+ years of directly relevant experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning engineering, BI/AI engineering, data science, or data analysis
 * Demonstrated experience building and deploying production-grade, data-intensive applications or services
 * Strong proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices, including version control, testing, code review, and API design
 * Hands-on experience deploying complex solutions within the following platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and Oracle
 * Experience building data pipelines and integrating structured and unstructured data from multiple sources
 * Experience modernizing manual, spreadsheet-driven, SharePoint-based, or otherwise fragmented business processes through software, automation, and AI-enabled solutions
 * Experience working directly with business stakeholders to define requirements, iterate on solutions, and measure outcomes
 * Ability to operate independently, make sound technical decisions, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Experience operating at a Staff-level scope or serving as a technical lead
 * Experience developing LLM-enabled applications, agentic workflows, or headless AI agents embedded in software
 * Experience establishing AI-enabled workflows, or data-intensive applications in a business environment
 * Experience with modern web application frameworks and cloud-native deployment patterns
 * Consulting, startup, solutions engineering, or embedded product engineering experience

This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who can quickly understand business challenges, work with imperfect data, and develop production-ready applications that create measurable business impact.

## Description

Kforce's client in Brookfield, WI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to support a strategic technology initiative focused on modernizing business processes and delivering scalable, data-intensive software solutions that drive business decision-making and measurable business outcomes., The successful candidate will take ownership of a defined business problem, partner with stakeholders to establish measurable KPIs, and deliver a production-ready application that transforms complex business data into actionable insights and recommendations. They will create a trusted system of record that captures application recommendations, user decisions, and business outcomes, enabling long-term measurement of solution impact, downstream reporting, and continuous refinement of both the application and underlying business process., * Own delivery of a strategic business initiative from problem definition through solution deployment

 * Design and develop scalable, data-intensive software application components and backend services
 * Integrate data from cloud platforms, enterprise systems, SharePoint, spreadsheets, APIs, and other business sources
 * Transform manual and fragmented business processes into automated, scalable solutions
 * Deploy AI, machine learning, and agent-based capabilities within software applications where appropriate
 * Partner directly with stakeholders to refine business requirements, define success metrics, and establish measurable KPI frameworks
 * Design and implement systems of record that capture recommendations, decisions, and business outcomes to enable long-term impact measurement, reporting, and solution refinement
 * Establish data validation, monitoring, governance, and operational support processes to ensure solution reliability and adoption


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