Forward Deployed Engineer | Finance
Job description
As a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer you turn AI ambitions in finance into working, production-grade agentic solutions, sitting with the client from discovery through go-live.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Utrecht, Netherlands
- Languages
- Dutch – fluent, English – fluent
- Pay
- EUR 5,850 – 7,150 / month
What you'll do
- Bridge business and technology: sit with the client, design the solution and often implement it yourself
- Run discovery conversations with business development, test use cases against real data and systems, and build a proof-of-value in days
- Design the agentic architecture, choose the fitting pattern per situation and bring the solution to production in short cycles with AI Engineers
- Hand over so the client can run the solution themselves and measure after go-live whether it is actually used
- Make learnings reusable for the next client and help onboard new FDEs
- Spend roughly 10% of time on pre-sales and 90% on delivery
What we're looking for
- Demonstrable experience in finance, knowing its processes, data, systems and risks from the inside
- Designed, brought to production and maintained AI solutions with LLMs and agents, including evals, guardrails, monitoring and security
- Strong in Python and SQL, hands-on with at least one cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP) and a data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake or Fabric
- Works daily with coding agents and critically assesses their output
- Experience in a client-facing role such as consultancy, pre-sales, solutions engineering or your own startup
- Fluent in Dutch and English, both spoken and written
Nice to have
- Experience with DORA, model risk management or audit trails
- Experience with classical ML such as fraud and risk models
Your team
AI Engineering-team
AI engineering consultants in two roles: the Forward Deployed AI Engineer owns the client problem and designs the solution including the agentic architecture, while the AI Engineer goes deep on build, data, MLOps and scale.
Benefits
- Gross salary of €5,850–€7,150 per month based on 40 hours
- 8% holiday allowance
- Contract for 32 to 40 hours per week
- Lease car or mobility allowance of your choice, on top of salary
- 27 vacation days and 4 study days
- €3,600 personal development budget per year and room for certifications
- Hybrid working with flexible hours
- Good pension scheme
- Growth opportunities in a specialist track
- International knowledge and development opportunities combined with a close-knit Dutch team
How to get hired
- 1A CV or LinkedIn profile is enough to start the conversation
- 2Then an introductory meeting, a technical conversation and a practical case follow
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About adesso Netherlands
Big enough to make impact, small enough to feel the difference
Part of the international adesso Group, adesso Netherlands is a relatively small and personal team with short lines, much freedom and room for own initiative, building data platforms, AI-first applications and agentic solutions.
Mission
Building smart solutions that genuinely add value for clients, with technology that works and makes impact
Key facts
- ruim 11.500 collega's
- Part of the international adesso Group with over 11,500 colleagues at more than 60 locations
- In the Netherlands a relatively small and personal team with short lines and much freedom
- Select Partner in the Claude Partner Network of Anthropic
- Own framework adSCAILE for building with AI agents in cycles of two to four days
Partners & customers
What they value
- Craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and knowledge sharing are central
- Not everything needs AI; the best solution always comes first
- Colleagues who are curious, share knowledge and help each other forward