Forward Deployed Product Engineer - AWS/FinOps in Slough

You’re technically strong. You understand AWS. You’re interested in AI. But you also know that the best technical people are not the ones who simply sit behind a screen and build what they’re told. You want to speak to customers. You want to understand what they are really trying to achieve. You want to take messy, imperfect requirements and turn them into something useful, scalable and commercially valuable. That is exactly what this role is about.

We’re hiring the first Forward Deployed Product Engineer for a growing UK technology business operating at the intersection of cloud, AI and enterprise software.

Why you might want this role

You will sit at the intersection of customers, product and engineering. You will work directly with customers to understand the queries, challenges and use cases they bring to the business. You will then work out how those requirements can be applied to the company’s existing core product. You will not spend your time building endless one-off solutions for individual customers. Instead, you will help answer a more valuable question: How do we solve this customer problem in a way that strengthens the product? That means you will have genuine influence. You will feed customer insight back into the product team. You will work closely with senior product leadership. You will help shape how the core offering evolves. And because you will be the first person hired specifically into this type of role, you will have the opportunity to help define what great forward deployed product engineering looks like within the business.

What you will be doing

• You will work directly with customers to uncover what they are really trying to achieve.
• You will translate customer questions and technical requirements into clear product and engineering problems.
• You will explore how new requirements can be supported through the existing platform.
• You will identify when something should become part of the broader product rather than remain a customer-specific request.
• You will work closely with Product, Engineering and Account Management to make sure customers get technically strong, commercially sensible outcomes.
• You will present technical concepts clearly to customers and internal stakeholders.
• You will operate comfortably across technical and non-technical conversations.
• You will become a trusted technical voice in front of customers.
• You will bring energy, curiosity and ownership to a role that is still being shaped.

What you will bring

• You will already have a strong technical grounding, most likely from a background in areas such as: AWS Solutions Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, AI Engineering, Technical Consulting.
• You will have strong AWS experience and an AWS certification.
• You will have worked in a customer-facing environment before.
• You will be comfortable speaking with senior stakeholders and asking the right questions rather than simply accepting the first requirement you are given.
• You will be able to explain complex technical ideas in a simple way.
• You will understand AI and be genuinely interested in where it can improve products and customer outcomes.
• You will be curious enough to challenge assumptions.
• You will be commercially aware enough to understand that not every customer request should become a bespoke technical project.
• You will be ambitious enough to want more than a standard engineering role.

Apply now to hear more.