Director, Technical Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role We are seeking a Director, Technical Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to join KPMG's Advisory Services practice. This role provides strategic direction for the FDE team, works with account and industry teams to scale delivery, and helps define technical standards, assets, and tools to enable secure, scalable AI-enabled solutions.

What You'll Do

• Work with leadership to provide strategic direction for the FDE team, including working with account or industry teams to scale FDE delivery, setting technical expectations and standards for FDE delivery pods, and expanding the assets and tools for the FDE teams
• Champion production discipline for enterprise by establishing and enforcing best practices in context engineering, evaluation, and operational readiness; mandate rigorous testing, including golden sets, regression harnesses, and red-teaming, and set the standard for secure, observable, and auditable code
• Provide hands-on leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, coaching them through complex challenges while actively contributing to the build; foster a culture of high talent density where every member raises the bar and enable them to deliver quality at speed
• Lead working sessions and facilitate collaboration across client stakeholders (from engineers to the C-suite) and cross-functional teams to design creative AI systems where success is measured by tangible, quantified outcomes and effective adoption, and build trust with clients by transparently communicating risks and progress
• Drive delivery in a fast-paced, outcome-accountable environment, operating in two-to-six-week cycles with direct client feedback; lead working sessions, earn client trust, manage risks, surface constraints early, and ensure every deliverable is ready for scale or run in production
• Spearhead the use of modern development accelerators (Claude Code, Lovable, Cursor, and more) where policy permits, to increase capacity of delivery, increase quality, and deliver faster
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

What We're Looking For

• Minimum ten years of recent experience shipping end-to-end production secure software
• Demonstrated leadership and mentorship experience guiding engineering teams and collaborating with executive stakeholders