Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

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Build. Scale. Sustain. We are a global technology consultancy with a trademarked, AI-first engineering approach for accelerating the delivery of digital products, and revolutionizing platform modernization. We do the right thing, and we do it right. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company. We are small enough to care locally, big enough to deliver globally : 5 continents, 10 countries, +500 experts from +50 nationalities across the Americas, Europe and APAC We are robust and resilient : 100% independent and 0 debt We are entrepreneurs and passionate experts : We invest in what we believe genuinely and work as a collective intelligence We are positive, courageous, caring, doers and committed to excellence About Gen-e2 TM While the market is still largely AI-augmenting delivery, we have reinvented the SDLC to be AI First. Leveraging our 16 years expertise in digital transformation, our approach is a game-changer in productivity and quality, with a strong collaboration between IA generative and our best Talents: We now generate 95% of the entire product - code, documentation, infrastructure as code, and even design - powered by AI coding agents and our own tooling. The quality consistently exceeds the output of our best traditional engineering teams. A product repository houses all product artefacts, giving AI full project context for higher-quality generation. A library of rules and prompts defines coding standards, design principles, and security guidelines, ensuring enterprise-grade quality and scalability. With Gen-e2 TM , we deliver end-to-end products 2-3× faster than traditional approaches, while raising the bar for engineering excellence. AI generates; engineers own. Your judgement, design thinking, and standards are what make the output production-grade. Your Role This role is well suited for people who are passionate about AI and about reinventing software engineering with AI to deliver faster, higher quality products and platforms. You will work with a team that is, every day, looking at how we can evolve our ways of working to be AI-First and what can be achieved with the constant progresses of the LLMs and AI coding tools. As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will lead end-to-end delivery of AI-powered products and solutions for our clients, focusing mainly on enterprises, owning the journey from discovery and technical scoping through to pilot, delivery all the way to production, and adoption. The work is varied: deploying an agentic AI workflow inside a major health insurer, standing up an AI-powered platform for a bank, or designing intelligent automation for a public sector agency. Our clients are Fortune 1000s across financial services, health, and the public sector, and the problems are real, ambiguous, and production-bound. While the foundation is broad full-stack and generalist engineering: you are equally proficient across product, architecture, coding, infrastructure, we expect you to be using AI coding tool such as GHCP, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex on a daily basis to generate most of your requirements, code, architecture diagrams... at least on side projects and ideally in your day-to-day work. You will think and build end to end like a product engineer and not just think about the code. These are not staff augmentation placements: you take a product from journey to pilot to production, own the outcome it delivers, and care as much about whether it gets adopted and creates value as whether the code is elegant. This is a hands-on engineering role within a consulting environment. You will embed directly with client engineering, product, and domain teams, translating ambiguous business problems into working systems that deliver measurable impact. You will be AI-native by default, applying PALO IT's Gen-e2 methodology to drive quality, speed, and adoption across every engagement. This role is based in Sydney. We operate a hybrid model with three days per week in our Sydney office or on client site, with the balance worked flexibly. This is a client-facing role at its core. You will spend much of your time in front of clients, running discovery sessions, presenting to senior stakeholders, and owning the conversation as much as the code. If you enjoy owning a problem end to end and seeing your work land with the people who use it, you will thrive here. This role suits people who are energised by ambiguity rather than a well-defined backlog. Client Delivery & Deployment Ownership Own technical delivery of your engagement, from first prototype, delivery to stable production. Lead discovery and scoping sessions: ask the right questions, frame the problem, and translate business needs into a delivery plan. Independently manage projects end to end, operating with minimal direction in ambiguous engagements. Architect and build full-stack, AI-powered systems that deliver measurable client value. Scope work, se

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