Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Synapse Analytics, you will own the technical success of complex and strategic product deployments across banking and enterprise clients. You will act as a senior technical counterpart to client infrastructure, security, architecture, data, and engineering teams, designing deployment and integration architectures that allow Synapse products to operate successfully within highly controlled enterprise environments.

You will be responsible not only for implementing solutions, but for making technical decisions, identifying risks early, driving complex integrations, resolving critical production issues, and turning lessons from client deployments into reusable improvements across Synapse products and delivery practices.

This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, infrastructure, systems architecture, delivery, and customer solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own complex end-to-end technical implementations of Synapse products across banking, on-premise, private cloud, restricted, and air-gapped environments.
• Lead technical architecture discussions with client infrastructure, networking, security, architecture, data, and engineering teams.
• Design deployment architectures covering:
• network topology
• security boundaries
• authentication and authorization
• application infrastructure
• data flows
• API exposure
• integration patterns
• observability
• high availability
• disaster recovery
• operational ownership
• Make technical decisions and trade-offs required to adapt Synapse products to complex client environments while maintaining product supportability and security.
• Design and implement complex integrations between Synapse products and enterprise systems, including:
• core banking platforms
• internal APIs
• data warehouses and data lakes
• Kafka and messaging platforms
• Oracle and SQL Server
• identity and access management systems
• legacy enterprise applications
• Build reusable adapters, connectors, APIs, automation, deployment tooling, and integration components where product c…

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4-7+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, systems integration, solutions engineering, DevOps, backend engineering, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise technical implementation.

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Python and API development using FastAPI, Django, Flask, or similar frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience deploying and operating production applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux.
• Significant experience with on-premise, private cloud, air-gapped, or highly restricted enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, including firewalls, VPNs, proxies, routing, load balancers, DNS, TLS/SSL, certificates, and network troubleshooting.
• Strong experience integrating with enterprise systems such as REST/SOAP APIs, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, message queues, identity providers, ERPs, CRMs, or internal banking platforms.
• Experience designing deployment and integration architectures rather than only implementing predefined architectures.
• Strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP/Active Directory, API keys, JWTs, and service-to-service authentication.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production environments across application, infrastructure, network, database, and integration layers.
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly to client engineering, infrastructure, architecture, security, and management stakeholders.
• Ability to create and review high-quality architecture documentation, API specifications, integration designs, deployment guides, and operational runbooks.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous client environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing technical designs.
• Comfortable leading client workshops, architecture sessions, production deployments, and technical escalations.
• Willingness to visit client sites and take ownership during critical deployment…