Forward Deployed Engineer - Agentic AI - Contract - Hybrid - London - via Umbrella
Forward Deployed Engineer - Agentic AI - Contract - Hybrid - London - via Umbrella
2-3 days per week on site in central London
Market rate via umbrella
About you
- You're a hands-on engineer who enjoys working close to the business and solving real operational problems
- You're comfortable working with ambiguity and don't need everything perfectly defined before you start
- You enjoy building agentic AI and automation solutions, but you're also happy upskilling others to build their own
- You're motivated by outcomes and adoption rather than demos or proofs of concept
- You're comfortable working side-by-side with non-technical but highly process-knowledgeable teams
What you'll be doing
- Working alongside business teams to understand their processes, pain points, and constraints
- Designing and building agentic AI solutions using Copilot Studio, AI Foundry, Power Automate, and Power Apps
- Building end-to-end solutions directly for departments or cross-functional, enterprise-wide use cases
- Supporting business department champions who are self-building their own agents, apps, and automation flows
- Identifying, designing, and implementing integrations and connectors to internal systems and external services
- Selecting appropriate integration approaches, including out-of-the-box connectors, custom connectors, or APIs
- Combining agents, automation, and apps into reliable, production-ready workflows
- Deploying and supporting solutions in production Power Platform environments
- Providing guidance, reviews, and practical support to non-technical business champions
- Staying accountable for adoption, performance, and real-world impact
What you'll bring
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI solutions using Copilot Studio and AI Foundry
- Strong experience with Power Automate, including event-driven and long-running workflows
- Experience building Power Apps to support operational processes
- Proven ability to design and build integrations and custom connectors using APIs, authentication, and data mapping
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders, including non-technical users
- A practical, delivery-focused mindset and comfort working with ambiguity
- The ability to balance hands-on delivery with supporting and enabling others to build safely
- Experience with AI governance, safety, or evaluation in enterprise environments is a bonus
- Familiarity with RAG, semantic search, or LLM-enabled workflows is a bonus