Level /
Location: GCB4/5 typical — Various — co-located
with the FDT Tech
Sit close to
users (business teams, delivery pods, transformation squads) as the accountable
engineer for rapid prototyping and delivery of end-to-end solutions. Build and
iterate production-viable prototypes and thin-slice solutions spanning UI,
APIs, integrations and automation—turning real user needs into working software
quickly, safely and repeatably. This role bridges product intent and
engineering execution, accelerating time-to-value while ensuring solutions are
secure, supportable and aligned to enterprise standards and platforms.
Reporting
& stakeholders: Solid line into FDT Tech
Lead / Engineering Lead. Strong day-to-day partnership with Product Owner(s),
business SMEs and delivery pod leads on scope, prioritisation and trade-offs.
Close collaboration with platform teams (e.g., AI platform / Data platform), architecture, and operations/support teams to ensure production
readiness. Engage with tooling/platform owners to provide structured feedback
and reusable patterns from field delivery.
Scope &
authority: Accountable for shaping, building and
delivering prototypes and end-to-end thin-slice solutions close to users,
including UI, APIs, integrations and automation workflows. Owns local technical
decisions required to deliver outcomes at pace, within approved architecture
patterns, engineering standards, controls and governance frameworks. Authority
includes recommending solution patterns, implementing integrations/automations,
and escalating material risks, dependencies or control gaps.
Role description
& core accountabilities
This role exists because high-impact
delivery often requires engineers embedded with users to rapidly discover the
right solution, prove value via prototypes, and then harden and deliver
end-to-end capabilities into production pathways. The Forward Deployed Engineer
accelerates learning loops while maintaining engineering discipline, ensuring
what’s built can scale, be supported and be reused.
· User-adjacent delivery & rapid prototyping - Work directly with users
to understand workflows and pain points; translate needs into prototypes, demos
and thin-slice implementations that validate value quickly and reduce delivery
risk.
· End-to-end solution build (UI/API/integration/automation) - Design and implement
complete solutions across front end, back end, integrations and automation,
using approved platforms and patterns to deliver measurable outcomes.
· Solution shaping & technical options - Propose pragmatic
technical approaches, MVP scopes and delivery sequencing; balance speed with
security, resilience, and maintainability.
· Integration & automation enablement - Build and configure
integrations (systems/APIs/events) and automate operational processes
(workflows, controls, reporting) to remove manual steps and improve
reliability.
· Engineering standards & controls adherence - Ensure solutions meet
engineering standards, secure coding practices, testing, and control
requirements; raise risks early and embed controls by design.
· Production readiness & handover - Drive operational
readiness including logging/monitoring, runbooks, support handover, and
non-functional considerations; ensure solutions can be operated safely at
scale.
· Reuse and platform alignment - Prefer reuse over bespoke;
contribute reusable components, patterns, templates and reference
implementations back to engineering/platform communities.
· Feedback loop to platforms - Capture field constraints and needs;
convert into actionable platform/tooling feedback (user stories, defects,
enhancements, benefits) to improve enterprise capabilities.
· Stakeholder management close to delivery - Communicate progress,
trade-offs, and risks clearly to business and technology stakeholders; keep
momentum and decisions unblocked.
Success Profile — criticality for this role
Criterion
Criticality
Experience
Delivering end-to-end solutions (UI,
APIs, integrations, automation)
Essential
Working in user-adjacent / ambiguous
delivery environments
Essential
Secure engineering, testing and
production readiness in enterprise contexts
Essential
Integration delivery and dependency
management
Essential
Rapid prototyping and iterative delivery
with users
Essential
Capability
Customer / Client Centricity
Essential
Engineering discipline & quality
assurance
Essential
Leading simplification and automation at
solution level
Essential
Judgment and decision-making
Essential
Influencing and stakeholder alignment
Essential
Championing innovation through rapid
iteration
Essential
Strategic technical thinking
Desirable
Inspirational Leadership
Desirable
Talent stewardship
Desirable
Personal Attributes
Stamina & Resilience
Essential
Collaboration & influence
Essential
Leadership Span
Essential
Calibration rationale: This is a hands-on,
user-adjacent engineering role optimised for speed-to-value and end-to-end
delivery. Core capabilities around engineering discipline, customer centricity,
integration delivery and pragmatic decision-making are Essential. Broader
strategic leadership and talent stewardship are Desirable, as the role
contributes to scaling patterns and mentoring but does not typically own
enterprise-wide strategy.
Experience — Required
· Strong ability to rapidly prototype, iterate with users, and then harden solutions towards production readiness.
· Experience building integrations and automation (e.g., workflows, orchestration, scripting, CI/CD automation) in enterprise environments.
· Working knowledge of secure engineering practices, testing, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and operational handover.
· Experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to shape MVP scope and manage trade-offs.
· Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments with shifting requirements, while maintaining delivery discipline and transparency.
Experience — Preferred
· Experience delivering within regulated/controlled environments (risk, audit, security, data handling) and navigating governance pragmatically.
· Experience with platform-based delivery and reuse (shared services, APIs, integration platforms, enterprise tooling), including knowing when to reuse vs build.
· Experience with modern UI frameworks, API design, event-driven or integration patterns, and automation/orchestration tooling.
· Experience working in Value Streams / product-led delivery, transformation pods, or forward-deployed/embedded engineering models.
· Experience contributing reusable accelerators (templates, reference apps, integration patterns) and coaching other engineers.
Behavioural skills
· User-obsessed builder; stays close to users, validates fast, and focuses on measurable outcomes over perfect paperwork.
· Pragmatic engineering discipline; moves quickly without skipping fundamentals (security, testing, operability, controls).
· End-to-end ownership mindset; takes accountability from discovery through build, release and handover; doesn’t throw work “over the wall”.
· Bias for simplification and automation; eliminates manual steps and complexity, automates repeatable tasks wherever sensible.
· Clear communicator under pressure; explains options, trade-offs and risks in plain language; keeps stakeholders aligned.
· Collaborative and inclusive; works well across roles and backgrounds, welcomes different perspectives to get to better solutions faster.
· Proactive risk management; identifies integration, dependency, data and control risks early; escalates with options, not surprises.
Derailers / red flags
· Builds prototypes that cannot be industrialised, creating rework or hidden technical debt.
· Ignores security, controls or operational needs in the name of speed; pushes fragile solutions into production pathways.
· Over-builds or over-engineers instead of delivering thin-slice value and iterating.
· Creates bespoke point solutions where reusable platforms/patterns exist.
· Fails to manage dependencies or communicate risks early, causing delivery churn and stakeholder surprises.
· Focuses on delivery completion without ensuring supportability, monitoring and clear ownership.
Year 1 outcomes (scale & embed)
• Consistent delivery of user-validated prototypes that convert into
production-viable thin-slice solutions with clear value realised.
• Multiple end-to-end solutions delivered
(UI/API/integration/automation) that measurably improve user workflows, reduce
manual effort, or increase reliability.
• Demonstrable reduction in cycle time from idea to working software
through embedded delivery and rapid iteration loops.
• Reusable components, patterns or templates contributed back to the
Value Stream/platform communities, reducing duplication across teams.
• Strong production readiness discipline established (testing,
security, observability, runbooks, handover), with reduced post-release
incidents and rework.
• Clear, structured feedback provided to platform/tooling teams,
influencing roadmap improvements based on field delivery realities.
• Recognised as a dependable embedded engineering partner who unblocks
delivery and raises overall engineering maturity.
Skills Required
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end software solutions covering UI, APIs or services, and upstream/downstream system integrations.
- Ability to rapidly prototype, iterate with users, and harden solutions toward production readiness.
- Experience building enterprise integrations and automation, including workflows, orchestration, scripting, or CI/CD automation.
- Working knowledge of secure engineering practices, testing, observability using logs, metrics, or traces, and operational handover.
- Experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to shape MVP scope and manage trade-offs.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments with shifting requirements while maintaining delivery discipline and transparency.
- Experience delivering in regulated or controlled environments involving risk, audit, security, or data handling.
- Experience with platform-based delivery and reuse, including shared services, APIs, integration platforms, and enterprise tooling.
- Experience with modern UI frameworks, API design, event-driven or integration patterns, and automation or orchestration tooling.
- Experience working in value streams, product-led delivery, transformation pods, or forward-deployed engineering models.
- Experience contributing reusable accelerators and coaching other engineers.
What We Do
Test Triangle is a Dublin-headquartered technology services company founded in 2012. It helps organizations transform operations through IT service management, digital transformation, software testing and quality assurance, cloud solutions, consulting, managed services, and recruitment. The company also provides application testing, DevOps, robotic process automation, software and mobile development, technology training, staffing, and resource augmentation across Ireland, the UK, and international markets.
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