Forward Deployed Engineer

Scion Technology has been engaged to conduct a search for an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer (Adobe Experience Platform) for our client, a people-focused, customer-driven consulting firm. This is a long-term contract opportunity, remote anywhere in the US with 25% travel.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This role combines solution architecture, technical consulting, and hands-on engineering focused on Adobe Experience Platform. You’ll work directly with strategic customers to understand their architecture, workflows, security requirements, and business objectives; solve complex platform challenges; and accelerate adoption and expansion.

PERKS

• High-impact customer ownership: Partner directly with strategic enterprise customers and become a trusted technical advisor from discovery through production and expansion.
• Architecture + hands-on engineering: Stay technical while designing enterprise architectures, building prototypes, troubleshooting complex challenges, and delivering production-ready solutions.
• Work at the center of modern customer data: Solve sophisticated problems across Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time CDP, journey orchestration, identity resolution, integrations, and data pipelines.
• Build with modern tools: Work across cloud, data, APIs, event-driven architectures, and AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner directly with strategic customers to understand their technical environments, business objectives, and definitions of success.
• Design and validate end-to-end enterprise solutions across Adobe Experience Platform, Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Adobe Journey Optimizer, and adjacent systems.
• Investigate and troubleshoot complex platform issues involving data ingestion, identity resolution, journey orchestration, audience activation, and data pipelines.
• Lead architecture workshops, platform health checks, technical deep-dives, and written architecture reviews that build customer trust.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new capabilities using AI-assisted development tools as a standard part of execution.
• Own the technical relationship with one or more enterprise customers while collaborating with product, engineering, architecture, and executive stakeholders.
• Identify recurring field needs and translate customer patterns into product feedback, technical strategy, and expansion opportunities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8–15+ years across solution architecture, software engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing engineering roles.
• Demonstrated ability to write code, build prototypes, and deliver working software grounded in implementation reality.
• Strong enterprise and data architecture expertise, including APIs, integrations, data modeling, identity resolution, and customer data platforms.
• Experience designing across complex, multi-system environments involving event-driven architectures, streaming or batch pipelines, data lakes, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with security, compliance, privacy, data governance, and regulated environments; familiarity with data sovereignty and GDPR is a plus.
• Strong customer empathy, communication, business acumen, and ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with AEP, RTCDP, AJO, CJA, Target, CDPs, MDM, martech, or comparable data platforms is strongly preferred.
• Growth mindset, bias toward action, and fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

This contract position offers a rate range of $100-150/HR, commensurate with experience. We offer a robust benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with additional perks.

ABOUT OUR FIRM

Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America . Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times . Additional information about our firm can also be found online.

Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.