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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Forward Deployed Engineer - **Company:** Janus Henderson - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Cisco Nexus Switches, Raw Data, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Software Applications, Data Ingestion, Large Language Models, Snowflake, IT Architecture, Microsoft Fabric, Data Pipelines - **Published:** September 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2C8E8809188941B78DA7521D4F9EFC9E/job/ ## About the Role * At minimum four years in a technical, business-facing engineering role - forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, consulting-side software engineering, or engineering embedded in a business unit. Former technical founders are encouraged to apply. * Strong Python and SQL, and a track record of shipping production applications rather than prototypes. * Production experience with LLMs, covering prompt and context engineering, agent development, evaluation, and deployment at scale. * Hands-on experience building agentic capability - MCP servers, tools, skills, or connectors - for other systems and agents to consume. * Experience building data pipelines from APIs and enterprise systems, and modelling raw data into curated, business-facing views. * Working knowledge of a major cloud, ideally Azure, with CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code. * Excellent stakeholder skills. You can run discovery with a portfolio manager in the morning and write the pipeline in the afternoon. * High agency and comfort with ambiguity, and genuine interest in the business problem rather than only the technology. * Experience in a regulated environment where governance, compliance, and data sensitivity shape how solutions are built. Nice to have skills * Asset management or financial services domain knowledge, particularly the investment process, front office workflows, or fixed income. * Quantitative investment concepts such as fair value, relative value, signal generation, or portfolio construction. * Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric / OneLake, or comparable enterprise data platforms. * Azure AI Foundry, model gateways, inference routing, or AI evaluation and observability in production. * TypeScript or a second production language, and front-end experience for user-facing AI applications. ## Description Embed with the business * Sit with business users - portfolio managers, analysts, traders, marketing, sales, HR, and operations - to understand their workflows, their data, and their day-to-day friction. * Partner with the AI Enablement Partners on escalated demand that business teams and citizen developers cannot deliver themselves. * Set realistic expectations on what is feasible, what it will take, and what it will not do. Deliver solutions end to end * Design, build, and productionise bespoke, higher-complexity AI solutions, owning them through to live running. * Prototype with the business close at hand, then harden what works into production rather than leaving a demonstration. * Own the architecture and design decisions for your solutions, keeping them secure, scalable, and aligned to the enterprise core stack. * Take solutions through evaluation, observability, and our AI governance checkpoints, and keep them healthy afterwards. Build investment capability on Nexus * Build advanced investment capability on Nexus and make it available across the firm. * Work with quantitative researchers and investment teams to take models and signals from one desk into a supported, firm-wide capability. * Put validation, monitoring, and reproducibility around signal output investment professionals rely on, and help take citizen developer workflows through to production. Make data and capability reusable * Source data through APIs, vendor feeds, and enterprise systems, and build the ingestion pipelines that keep it flowing. * Curate raw data into business-focused views, and own its lineage, quality, and freshness. * Expose data and capability through Accio, and as skills, tools, and connectors on Nexus, so any approved agent or application can reach them. * Build reusable components rather than one-off integrations, and feed the patterns back to AI Architecture and AI Engineering. Work across the AI function * Co-build enterprise core-stack deliverables with Percepta and AI Engineering, designed for transfer into business-as-usual. * Work with AI Security and AI Governance Implementation so solutions meet our security, data-privacy, and responsible-AI standards. * Keep current with LLM capabilities, agent patterns, and AI tooling, and bring back what is genuinely useful. What to expect when you join our firm * Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations * Generous Holiday policies * Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub * Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community * Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more * Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services * All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities * Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen ## Related Videos - [Data Governance in the Era of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1622-data-governance-in-the-era-of-ai) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Do TypeScript without TypeScript](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/327-do-typescript-without-typescript) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Bringing Clarity to Event Streams: Enabling Analytics and AI Through Rich Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1616-bringing-clarity-to-event-streams-enabling-analytics-and-ai-through-rich-metadata) - [Azure AI Foundry for Developers: Open Tools, Scalable Agents, Real Impact](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1541-azure-ai-foundry-for-developers-open-tools-scalable-agents-real-impact) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Graph and AI Trends 2026: Why Is AI Running but Not Yet Delivering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/680-graph-and-ai-trends-2026-why-is-ai-running-but-not-yet-delivering) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix)