Forward Deployed Software Engineer Jobs in Michigan

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Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with customers and stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and desired outcomes, translating requirements into technology-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Design, implement, configure, customize, and integrate company and partner platforms, products, accelerators, and reusable assets to address complex customer business and technical needs.
• Drive complex solution initiatives across the lifecycle, including discovery, design, development, deployment, adoption, optimization, and value realization.
• Build trusted relationships with business, technical, and senior stakeholders, providing technical guidance and influencing solution decisions throughout customer engagements.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, product, delivery, and operational teams to ensure successful implementation, adoption, and ongoing improvement of solutions.
• Analyze and resolve complex business, technical, and operational challenges using sound judgment, creativity, and structured problem-solving approaches.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, solution enhancement, and operational improvement through a combination of customer insights, domain knowledge, and platform capabilities.
• Capture customer feedback, implementation learnings, and reusable patterns to improve products, platforms, accelerators, methodologies, and delivery practices.
• Contribute to delivery excellence through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and the development of best practices, implementation patterns, and reusable assets.
• Apply industry and domain knowledge to ensure solutions align with customer workflows, regulatory requirements, operational realities, and strategic business outcomes.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments, solution architecture, software engineering practices, and technology delivery methodologies.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions leveraging cloud, integration, automation, data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and related technologies.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, communication, and customer engagement skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence decision-making.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Deep working knowledge of relevant company and partner platforms, products, implementation approaches, and reusable assets.
• Ability to understand and apply industry and business context, linking technology decisions to customer outcomes, operational effectiveness, and business value.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and tailor messaging to diverse audiences.
• Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and deliver results in complex customer environments.
• Strong collaboration, relationship-building, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing skills.

Required Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, Business Technology, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Relevant certifications in cloud technologies, solution architecture, agile delivery, data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, or related disciplines are advantageous.

Required Experience:

• Deep experience in software engineering, solution architecture, consulting, customer engineering, technology delivery, or related technology disciplines.
• Advanced experience working directly with enterprise customers and stakeholders in customer-facing environments.
• Advanced experience delivering complex solution engagements, including discovery, design, implementation, deployment, adoption, and optimization activities.
• Advanced demonstrated experience implementing, configuring, integrating, extending, or customizing enterprise platforms, products, or technology solutions within customer environments.
• Demonstrated experience translating business and domain requirements into practical, scalable technology solutions that achieve measurable outcomes.
• Deep experience collaborating effectively across product, engineering, architecture, delivery, and business teams to achieve customer and organizational objectives.
• Demonstrated experience solving complex business and technical challenges independently, exercising sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Advanced experience contributing to continuous improvement initiatives, reusable assets, methodologies, implementation standards, or best practices.
• Advanced experience providing technical guidance, mentoring, or knowledge sharing to colleagues and project team members.

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this remote role is 118,000.00 - 168,000.00 - 218,000.00 USD Annual. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

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About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune

Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through

responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with

unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and

application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move

confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more

than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in R&D.

Equal Opportunity Employer
NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.

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