Forward Deployed Engineer, Internal Data Products

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business leaders and construction teams to understand workflows, clarify needs, and define measurable outcomes.
• Design and build internal applications, automations, and data products across interfaces, application logic, databases, and APIs.
• Prototype and validate solutions using AI-assisted coding, traditional development, low-code tools, and existing technology.
• Connect applications to governed enterprise and project data with Data and Integration Engineering.
• Own delivery through testing, documentation, stakeholder communication, and technical dependency coordination.
• Measure adoption and impact, improve solutions from feedback, and scale successful tools across teams and regions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Level III requires a bachelor’s degree and at least four years of relevant software engineering experience, or demonstrated equivalency.
• Level IV requires a bachelor’s degree and at least six years of relevant software engineering experience, or demonstrated equivalency.
• Candidates must have built and deployed applications, automations, or data products used by real users.
• Candidates must have worked with nontechnical stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Candidates must be proficient in at least one modern programming language and have practical SQL, database, and API experience.
• Candidates must have used AI-assisted development tools and be able to validate and debug generated code.
• Candidates must understand version control, testing, secure data and secrets handling, and deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in construction, engineering, infrastructure, or another project-based operational environment is preferred.
• Experience replacing spreadsheet processes with applications or automations for nontechnical users is preferred.
• Startup or small-team experience involving rapid prototyping and broad ownership is preferred.
• Experience scaling prototypes into reliable solutions across teams, projects, or locations is preferred.

Workplace

• The position offers a remote work schedule and can be based from any US location where AECOM has an office.
• New hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office.

Compensation

• The listed salary range is USD 105,000 to USD 150,000 yearly.

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