Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical aspects of enterprise onboarding, from initial architectural discussions to successful large-scale rollouts.

• Develop and implement identity and authentication integrations, including OIDC, Entra ID, and Frontline Identity.

• Create and execute user provisioning using SCIM.

• Construct REST API integrations and connections to HR and operational systems such as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, and UKG.

• Provide guidance and support to customer IT teams, partners, and external development collaborators.

• Develop initial integrations or prototypes as necessary to validate an approach or facilitate a rollout.

• Offer documentation and support to enable customer teams to manage solutions independently.

• Oversee the deployment of agents, MCP-based tool access, and agent-to-agent scenarios for enterprise clients.

• Establish authentication and data boundaries for AI implementations.

• Collaborate with customer project management, IT, security, functional departments, and works councils.

• Relay customer-identified gaps back to product and engineering teams.

• Travel to customer locations regularly, approximately 10–30% of the time.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3 to 5 or more years of experience in IT or tech consulting, customer engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or SaaS implementation.

• Proven experience in enterprise environments.

• Hands-on experience with enterprise integration and identity management, including SSO and authentication using OIDC, OAuth, Entra ID, or similar technologies.

• Experience with REST APIs and API-based integrations within enterprise IT settings.

• Technical responsibility in customer-facing enterprise projects.

• Capable of making technical decisions in conjunction with IT, security, and functional departments.

• Sufficient technical depth to read code, review designs, debug integrations, and build functional prototypes.

• Proficiency in German at C1 level or higher.

• Fluent in English.

• Experience with provisioning using SCIM is preferred.

• Familiarity with HR or workforce systems such as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, or UKG is preferred.

• Current knowledge of agentic AI, MCP, A2A, EMA, and related authentication issues is preferred.

• Previous experience as a Customer Engineer or Forward Deployed Engineer at a product company is preferred.

• Experience with workflow automation tools like n8n is preferred.

• Comfort with logs, metrics, and dashboards is preferred.

• Experience with German co-determination and enterprise data protection regulations is preferred.

• Legally eligible to work in the European Union or the United Kingdom without visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work model with the flexibility to work from home.

• Occasional team events, workshops, or meetings held in Berlin or Stuttgart offices.

• Coverage for E-Gym-Wellpass membership.

• Job bike leasing options available.

• Regular team-building events and cultural days.

• Opportunities to work abroad within the European Union.

• A relaxed working atmosphere.

• Chances to shape the company and achieve personal growth goals.