Forward Deployed Engineer, Internal Data Products

AECOM Construction Management is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to turn business challenges into useful internal applications and data products for construction teams. The role involves working with stakeholders to understand workflows, developing and deploying solutions, and improving their adoption and impact.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with business leaders and construction teams to understand workflows, clarify ambiguous needs, and define requirements and measurable outcomes
• Design and build internal applications, automations, and data products, working across user interfaces, application logic, databases, and APIs as needed
• Rapidly prototype and validate solutions with users, choosing practical approaches across AI-assisted coding, traditional development, low-code tools, and existing technology
• Partner with Data & Integration Engineering to connect applications to governed enterprise and project data, using consistent data definitions and established technical standards
• Own delivery from discovery through deployment, including testing, documentation, stakeholder communication, and coordination of technical dependencies and blockers
• Measure adoption and business impact, improve solutions based on feedback, and turn successful tools into reusable capabilities across teams, projects, and regions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree plus at least Two (2) years of relevant software engineering experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Demonstrated experience personally building and deploying applications, automations, or data products used by real users, with clear ownership of delivery and improvements
• Experience working directly with nontechnical stakeholders to understand business needs, translate them into technical requirements, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Java, along with practical experience using SQL, relational databases, and APIs to build integrated applications
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, with the ability to understand, debug, and validate generated code and apply sound practices for version control, testing, secure data and secrets handling, and deployment
• Sponsorship for U.S. work authorization is not available for this position, now or in the future
• Experience in construction, engineering, infrastructure, or another project-based operational environment, particularly with staffing, utilization, project controls, or field workflows
• Experience replacing spreadsheet-based processes with internal applications or automations for nontechnical users
• Experience in a startup or small team requiring rapid prototyping, broad ownership, and close collaboration with users
• Experience extending a prototype or team-level application into a reliable solution used across multiple teams, projects, or locations