Forward Deployed Engineer and FDE Lead - Anthropic

Date:

5 Aug 2026

Location:

Sydney, NSW, AU

Department:

Technology & Transformation

Description:

Job Requisition ID: 41672

Join us as a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, where you'll work closely with strategic clients to turn complex problems into deployed AI solutions that deliver real business impact.

What will your typical day look like?

You'll work directly with clients to unpack their hardest challenges and shape practical paths from idea to implementation. That could mean designing integrations, standing up data pipelines, extending agentic workflows, or guiding a pod toward a production-ready solution built with Anthropic technologies.

Just as important is the leadership you'll bring to the work. You'll set technical direction, mentor engineers through delivery, and help teams make smart trade-offs across architecture, speed and quality. In senior client conversations, you'll be comfortable moving between deep technical detail and clear business language.

Variety is built into the role. Some engagements will call for hands-on coding, others for solution design, stakeholder alignment or delivery coaching. Across it all, you'll be helping clients adopt a more AI-native way of working while keeping the focus on outcomes that are useful, scalable and real.

About the team

You'll be joining a high-trust engineering team working with Anthropic technologies and operating closer to clients than most engineers ever get to. The team is still growing, so you'll have real influence over how engagements run, which tools and approaches we back, and how we continue building a low-ego, high-ownership culture. The work spans complex, high-consequence environments across areas like government, financial services and critical infrastructure, where strong engineering and thoughtful AI deployment can make a visible difference.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

As a Lead Anthropic FDE, you are an engineering leader first and foremost, embedded directly with our most strategic clients, leading forward deployed engineering pods that develop and deploy GenAI and Agentic AI solutions for Deloitte’s most strategic clients. You are ALL IN on how AI can solve problems, and is able to lead your team from discovery to implementation

You communicate naturally with both technical and non-technical people. You maintaining hand-on technical credibility and can hold your own in senior architecture discussion and then turn around and explain the trade-offs to a business sponsor in plain language.

Pods under your leadership benefit from your delivery mentorship, architecture direction and mentorship.

What you'll bring:

5+ years technical leadership experience in consulting, professional services, or equivalent client-facing roles

10+ years professional experience building software, ideally in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or Go, with strong engineering principles and willingness to work across the stack.

Experience with hands on Anthropic tooling such as Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Managed Agents

Lead teams to develop and adopt an AI native mindset – reaching for your favourite AI tools to solve problems.

Experience with data-intensive systems: pipelines, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and AI tooling

A bias toward action, you'd rather ship a working v0.1 than polish a specification.

Genuine comfort with ambiguity and context-switching.

Excellent communication and relationship skills, this is a deeply client-facing role.

Willingness to travel to client sites and collaborate in person as required

Bonus points for:

Claude Architect or Developer certification

Business Process Mapping and Value Stream Mapping techniques

Know your way around hyperscaler agent platforms such as Amazon AgentCore

Have worked with Agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, Strands, Crew AI,

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, or DevOps practices.

Exposure to data engineering, analytics, or machine learning workflows.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction - whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.